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David McWilliams: ‘There aren’t enough houses, transport infrastructure lags behind other wealthy countries, hospitals are overcrowded and, in many places, private opulence exists side by side with public squalor.
“There aren’t enough houses, transport infrastructure lags behind other wealthy countries, hospitals are overcrowded and, in many places, private opulence exists side by side with public squalor. This is what happens when you don’t focus on supply,” he writes. On housing and public infrastructure, McWilliams outlines what the next government must do to ensure supply is healthy: radically reduce the impediments to development. This means “altering the way we build, the way we plan and the way we balance the rights of objectors with the responsibility to society as a whole.”to Political Editor Pat Leahy in The Irish Times this weekend.
David McWilliams: Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and fall in the years aheadof plans for a giveaway budget. There will be tax reductions, permanent spending increases, including in social welfare rates, and there will be package of “one-off” giveaways – “all of which,” he adds, “will be delivered this year”. This, he says, is necessary due to acute cost-of-living pressures.
For her latest venture into Ireland’s culinary scene, Corinna Hardgrave visited Coppinger, a re-boot of an older Dublin favourite Coppinger Row, which our critic says is even better than the original: “Not all the dishes hit the mark, but they are tasty and a welcome reprise from the formulaic predictability of the bigger operators. Once again, they are launching a restaurant at a time when the industry is going through a bit of a shake-up.
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