335,000 civil and public servants

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Yeah, but what did the public service ever do for us?
Had their numbers and pay cut as part of the National Recovery Plan for Ireland 2011 – 2014. http://www.budget.gov.ie/The National Recovery Plan 2011-2014.pdf. This was achieved ahead of target. By any standard that was an achievement, but this being Ireland, we've let things slip.

CIVIL SERVICE OF THE FUTURE

But is the number of civil servants a cause for concern? There are now over 330,000 public servants and the pay bill is EUR 18.7 billion. https://www.gov.ie/en/policy-inform...e-pay-policy/?referrer=/en/public-sector-pay/. That is to say, we now employ over 10,000 more public servants than we did in in the Year of the Crash, i.e. 2008 and spend EUR 5 billion more on their pay than we did in 2008. But the number of civil servants, i.e. 39 thousand, is about the same today as it was in 2008. http://databank.per.gov.ie/Databank.aspx. (And they had their pay reduced.) So it's the sustainability of numbers and pay in the wider public service should be a primary concern, not necessarily the “office requirements” of the civil service.
 
So it's the sustainability of numbers and pay in the wider public service should be a primary concern, not necessarily the “office requirements” of the civil service.

Maybe so, but in that case a new thread should be started.

The budget statement was about the civil service.
 
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