Leadership and fairness is required

Another option?

and that's fair enough C....... but I think it's very difficult for someone to break into the system on their own and once your sign up with a party you have to go along with the whole self perpetuating cycle.

What I would really like to see is the Dail being paid by performance. Therefore the current crisis when we have a huge deficit that we have to close.......TDs are on something like €92k basic plus secretarial allowances etc and load of expenses with Ministers on probably double that and Biffo has another large dollop on top again.

If the target has to be cutting €4 bn a year for the next 4 years, then why don't we do what real employers do an link people pay to their results? So if the TDs collectively deliver the €4bn a year by consensus then they keep their packages. If they don't meet the goal in year 1 they drop 10% across the board, same in years 2,3 & 4. Surely that would ensure that the Dail had to work through the various party goals to achieve the national interest so we can start growing again.....

That said I still think we have about 100 TDs too many but hell.............


Roger
 

Re Mandate - I do not go on opinion polls but on the general sense in the country. As I stated their programme for government said nothing about bailing out banks or creating NAMA. If we let them away with doing things like this you open the doors to an party putting a programme to the people at election and getting in and doing differently!
Re doing up of offices - there is no need for any politician when he gets an office to spend thousands on curtains alone!

In general let all the parties lay out their stall and let the people decide. One question I would ask is if the figures add up that the only parties that can make gov is FF/Lab or FF/FG who will be in gov - I agree it would be FF/Lab and they will winge we have to cos thats the way the numbers add up which was their excuse in the past.
People should vote for a government not a local TD to do the roads.
Re the public service comments - plenty of people turned up their noses during the boom years at public sector jobs. The public sector found it hard to recruit lower grades because people were getting more in the private sector so dont try to penalise the people who took the jobs and did not have the perks that people in the private sector had over the last number of years.
Another suggestion in this time of crisi is to put everything on the table including the corporation tax - why should that not be looked at?
 
partnership said:
Re Mandate - I do not go on opinion polls but on the general sense in the country.
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I would love to know how you have guaged the sense in the country, you must have clocked up a few mile doing that. If you are basing your view on the media, you have to understand that they have an agenda, bad news sells. Also I would contend that the sense in the country was great during the boom times when everything went mad. Running the country is like being a parent, sometimes the kids won't like what you tell them but it is still in their best interest.

Your comment is correct about low paid civil servants but they are the exception rather than the rule. The majority of civil service jobs are not low paid, but I accept the classification of low paid is a matter of opinion.


partnership said:
Another suggestion in this time of crisi is to put everything on the table including the corporation tax - why should that not be looked at?
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You should not touch corporation tax because the IT, Pharma and international financial services sectors are based on mainly US MNCs investing here and this is significantly biased by the low corporation tax. This is the knowledge economy. Many indigenous companies are formed by people who have gained valuable international experience and use it to create Irish companies. The other reasons to leave corporation tax alone is that these large companies can easily and quickly move their country for tax purposes so you would lose some of the '12%'s that we are getting now
 
Purple said:
Having had some porsonal experience with ONQ's professional abilities I would back him for the job in a heartbeat (at the risk of being accused of helping him tout for business ).
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(bows)

You're too kind Purple.

Complainer, I wasn't looking for a mandate, I offered to do a job competently for very little.

Looking at the Banks and Government it is clear that neither capitalism nor the democratic mandate delivers competent people into power.

Most of my time will be ensuring that the government departments actually spend their capital allocations and arguing in cabinet that money is not skimped on third level education needed to ensure Ireland can compete in the next decade full spectrum.

ONQ.
 
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