Marathon Man
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Anyone else have a problem with TDs 'facilitating' passports for people who are entitled to them anyway?
The idea of political hacks 'facilitating' anything from passports to social welfare entitlements, for people who are entitled to them, sucks.
If they are entitled to them, then they should get them without having to kow-tow to these gombeens. On the other hand, if the 'system' is being abused and people 'mucked about', intentionally or otherwise by civil servants, and therefore have to go through the gombeens, then there is something seriously wrong with the system - and I'm not saying there is - unless, of course, the policians intentionally have made it so!
6,500 odd political pressure requests for passports in 2007? Something stinks!
Including, but more so than any other politician, I think that the idea of the holder of the office of An Taoiseach, whether past, present, or future, 'facilitating' a passport for someone who is entitled to one anyway smacks of Killnascully or Ballygash!
The idea of political hacks 'facilitating' anything from passports to social welfare entitlements, for people who are entitled to them, sucks.
If they are entitled to them, then they should get them without having to kow-tow to these gombeens. On the other hand, if the 'system' is being abused and people 'mucked about', intentionally or otherwise by civil servants, and therefore have to go through the gombeens, then there is something seriously wrong with the system - and I'm not saying there is - unless, of course, the policians intentionally have made it so!
6,500 odd political pressure requests for passports in 2007? Something stinks!
Including, but more so than any other politician, I think that the idea of the holder of the office of An Taoiseach, whether past, present, or future, 'facilitating' a passport for someone who is entitled to one anyway smacks of Killnascully or Ballygash!