And there you have it. To be profitable, they must be efficient, customer focused and innovative. Public providers tend to be none of these! And they don't have to worry about going out of business. The taxpayer is always available for a mugging to cover their costs.
Yes, you'd still have to pay for your skips.
But Private Schools are, in effect, subsidising the State since without them the State would have to cover the full cost. The State spends around €7000-€8000 a year educating each child in the public system. Does anyone really think there isn't room for improvement there? We shouldn't spend less but we should be looking for better returns.
No, the main difference is revenue sources. The private provider has a limit on what revenue it can access. The public provider doesn't and if the revenue isn't there to cover their operating costs they can just stop providing the service. The private provider has to provide the service no matter what or else they go bust.
They have whatever social obligation that is stipulated in the service contract they sign with the State.
No, but the State currently does all that for privately delivered services.
Good examples of the State perpetuating waste and inefficiency.
Good public administration built the Roman Empire as much as their Legions did. Lack of good public administration is the single biggest failing in this country and disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable.
Of course there are well structured public sector bodies, Revenue, the CAO, the Passport Office spring to mind. At a State level I suspect actual Departments are well run. That doesn't detract from the poor value for money we get in healthcare, education, local authorities, and generally where the State interacts with private industries. The medical and legal industries are most notable in that regard where they provide very poor value for money.
Were we? I certainly wasn't. There's no scenario where that would work.
Yep, when people say to me that they get nothing back for the taxes they pay I ask them if they have kids and if so do they pay the €7,000-€8,000 a year it costs to educate them? I ask them if their poo goes away when they flush the toilet. I ask them if the street lights come on when it gets dark. I ask them if there are streets outside their house, if there is a fire service if their house goes on fire, if there is a hospital when they get sick, if there is a police force if they get burgled etc.
Yep, rich people pay most of the tax and the squeezed middle all get more back than they pay in.
Interestingly I know someone who is a supplier to both Dunnes and Applegreen (run by ex Dunnes execs) and he has said they drive very hard deals and are tough to deal with on pricing. If they can afford to pay a 10% pay rise, they must be doing ok.
That was tried in Eastern Europe already with enforced Communism, a dismal failure it was too. For some reason "Big government" and "Big State" is back in fashion again only amplified by the Covid restrictions and interventions. This is probably the case because the millenials have no memory of Communism in Europe
But it looks like they encourage people to make submissions using their wizard/form?
