If an organisation can’t do its core job, problems will show up one way or another. Either it’ll make a poor quality product for a fair price, as is happening with Boeing. Or it’ll make a good quality product at massive cost, as happened with the National Children’s Hospital.
Assuming Ireland lives up to its potential as an offshore wind powerhouse, then the logical conclusion is that it should be a home to heavy industry, says Colm O'Neill, KPMG partner, on The Currency podcast this week.
In a new book, Infrastructure Projects and Local Communities, stakeholder engagement consultant Garry Keegan advocates for deeper and earlier public consultation with local people to get necessary projects such as wind farms across the line.
Is Ireland really governed by feckless eejits and the pages of its newspapers filled with hacks and jokers? Are we incapable of turning big ideas into reality? More detail, not less, is key to solving those questions.
Dubliner Ray Wilson is co-founder of Plenary, an Australian infrastructure giant. He thinks the Irish state should partner with Plenary on infrastructure projects like Metrolink North. Is he right?
The National Broadband Plan’s contractor is speeding up the construction of its network and the connection of paying customers. An incentive scheme is fully funded to reward its senior staff.
Ireland needs to invest billions in infrastructure. Most of the benefits will go to landowners and developers. But there's a way to make developers foot the bill.
It is only a matter of time until the energy supply constraint is fixed through investment but a significant question remains: Is it strategic for Ireland to be home to so many data centres?
The four things the state must do if its to regain the ability to do very hard things.
People keep moving to the city. Unless we relax the plans and start building sprawling car-dependent suburbs, making bold up-front investments in commuter rail is the only game in town.
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