“Mairéad Farrell is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform.”
I don’t have much of an issue with what she said either tbh I think we can all agree parts of the civil service can be improved.
She probably should have used a better description than “constipated” though.
Her article is reasonable and nothing too bad was said. I personally have heard of officials in the public sector who are blowing eye watering sums on money on IT consultants or subcontractors because that is all they know how to do. I’m talking about up to 100,000+ for certain fields.
The professional civil servants need a bit of a jolt. They are totally insulated from the same conditions that exist in the private sector. They can’t be sacked or demoted. All that can be done is they get a lateral move to another body.
They’ve gotten used to having it handy under Fine Gael, our politicians are accountable to the electorate but this permanent class isn’t.
Maybe they should get the finger out or otherwise their jobs could get uncomfortable. What’s wrong with that?
If any of us in private sector don’t perform we all know what happens. There’s a professional class of middle management in the public sector or academia who don’t really have any core competence beyond management and are unwilling to move into the private workplace because they have it handy. The don’t face competition or real performance reviews.
Sinn Féin are entitled to question whosoever they want.
Saying it’s not a criticism of the staff is fucking bullshit.
Had a friend who was paid €75K as a contractor PM in HSE along with 6 others , who waited 6 months doing nothing whilest they hired another PM the manager the PMs they had sitting on the bench , after a year the project never took off and he moved to another higher paying role over 1 million down the drain , imagine if that money was spent on hiring more nurses are paying them better
She’s right. She also knows SF like all govts before them will struggle to deliver certain things because of them. So she’s making her excuses in advance.
Criticising civil or public services means you’re criticising the staff of them, because they’re the ones responsible for their operation. If they’re not managing them well then they operate inefficiently, and there’s nothing wrong with pointing that out. Why should there be? If a public company isn’t operating well, it doesn’t grow as well as it should and its shareholders criticise that and push for change; why should it be any different for us, the taxpayers, when it comes to public departments we’re all forced to fund? And if the civil servants have an issue with that then they’re not being unbiased
SF preparing to purge the public service and install their supporters? It’s standard step for trying to cement an autocracy.
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“Mairéad Farrell is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform.”
I don’t have much of an issue with what she said either tbh I think we can all agree parts of the civil service can be improved.
She probably should have used a better description than “constipated” though.
Her article is reasonable and nothing too bad was said. I personally have heard of officials in the public sector who are blowing eye watering sums on money on IT consultants or subcontractors because that is all they know how to do. I’m talking about up to 100,000+ for certain fields.
The professional civil servants need a bit of a jolt. They are totally insulated from the same conditions that exist in the private sector. They can’t be sacked or demoted. All that can be done is they get a lateral move to another body.
They’ve gotten used to having it handy under Fine Gael, our politicians are accountable to the electorate but this permanent class isn’t.
Maybe they should get the finger out or otherwise their jobs could get uncomfortable. What’s wrong with that?
If any of us in private sector don’t perform we all know what happens. There’s a professional class of middle management in the public sector or academia who don’t really have any core competence beyond management and are unwilling to move into the private workplace because they have it handy. The don’t face competition or real performance reviews.
Sinn Féin are entitled to question whosoever they want.
Saying it’s not a criticism of the staff is fucking bullshit.
Had a friend who was paid €75K as a contractor PM in HSE along with 6 others , who waited 6 months doing nothing whilest they hired another PM the manager the PMs they had sitting on the bench , after a year the project never took off and he moved to another higher paying role over 1 million down the drain , imagine if that money was spent on hiring more nurses are paying them better
She’s right. She also knows SF like all govts before them will struggle to deliver certain things because of them. So she’s making her excuses in advance.
Criticising civil or public services means you’re criticising the staff of them, because they’re the ones responsible for their operation. If they’re not managing them well then they operate inefficiently, and there’s nothing wrong with pointing that out. Why should there be? If a public company isn’t operating well, it doesn’t grow as well as it should and its shareholders criticise that and push for change; why should it be any different for us, the taxpayers, when it comes to public departments we’re all forced to fund? And if the civil servants have an issue with that then they’re not being unbiased
SF preparing to purge the public service and install their supporters? It’s standard step for trying to cement an autocracy.