http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1117/publicservice.html
Announcement today sometime!.. Interested as part of one of the Quangos being merged/dispanded!...
300,000 to 282,500 by 2015?
Too little, too late and no credit to the government.
300,000 to 282,500 by 2015?
Too little, too late and no credit to the government.
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or better late then never
300,000 to 282,500 by 2015?
Too little, too late and no credit to the government.
That works out at under 2% per annum over three years (5.833%)
Annual 2% reduction will be reached by retirement, natural attrition and no replacement of leavetakers.
Voluntary redundancy is like doing surgery with a spoon.
Why would that matter?
You're ingnoring the numbers of PS that have left already. I heard a figure of 35,000 less public servants by 2015. Whatever way it is reached, it is not insignificant.
I'll be more interested in the future of many of the Quangos. I remember Prime Time did a special on these a couple of years ago and the % of people on higher salaries seemed excessive.
I suspect that most of the quangos will just be merged into the relevant government departments with no job loses. Very little change to the bottom line but makes the government look good. As in the real world if services are not needed or more importantly not affordable the staff should be let go.
Annual 2% reduction will be reached by retirement, natural attrition and no replacement of leavetakers.
I didn't say it would matter.
I pointed out that's how it would be achieved.
What matters is that we need deeper cuts and quicker to balance the books.
Otherwise we keep borrowing endlessly and foisting it on future generations to pay.
Voluntary redundancy is like doing surgery with a spoon.
Brilliant line, and very true. I don't get the ethos of embargo's and the voluntary redundancy thing at all. We need flexibility and finesse, these are too blunt. What is the problem with simply saying that public services, by and large, will be run as commerical private businesses contracting to the state, including private pension arrangements. Set that as the target, L.T. and apply proper accountable management structures to achieve it.
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