I can say with certainty that it places no additional administrative burden or cost on us.
"Since establishment, there has been a growth in the mandate and workload of the DPC. Funding for the DPC has increased more than six-fold from its 2015 allocation of €3.647 million, to a €23.2 million Budget allocation in 2022. This has been in line with its increased functions and responsibilities. Based on current information, the DPC staffing numbers have increased from 110 in 2018 to 191 at the end of 2021 and there is provision for total staff numbers of 258 by the end of 2022, based on the sanctioned budget allocation."
Yes, layers of inefficient bureaucratic fat clogging the arteries of the State. No need for most of it if the State Sector functioned efficiently.And that's just one of many new bodies that have been set up to supervise something or other since the days when Bertie announced that
the then Director of Corporate Enforcement would have to "wait his turn" for extra staff.
Since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, the DPC has imposed fines of more than €4 billion on big tech firms. Just €20 million of that has been paid, as most of the rulings are under appeal.
Consumer Price Inflation during that period was 20.5%.Is the 1/3rd increase in state spending not just keeping in line with 8 years inflation from 2016 to 2024 in particular the high inflation experienced in 2022/23 ?
We get billions in taxes from the MNC's that we regulate.More money for the lawyers. And much of it coming from the Irish taxpayer. Who gets the fines at the end of the day? The Exchequer or the EU?
We get billions in taxes from the MNC's that we regulate.
They are regulated where they are headquartered, which is where they pay their taxes so no, we wouldn't.if they were regulated from Rome, Rodez or Riga we'd get the exact same billions.
In response to your link to the new DPC offices: remember this?
Of course cost savings and investment in IT and better processes, as well as shared services centres, standardisation of contracts and HR function and all of the other improvements that the Public Sector engage in each year have negated the need for much of that investment... oh, wait...The population supported by the government has increased 7.5% over that time period and the cost of goods/services has increased 23%, so a 33% increase in spending was required for the government to deliver a similar level of service to 2016 no?
The DPC here is responsible for oversight on some of the largest tech companies in the EU, because their European headquarters are here, bringing in massive tax revenues. Of all the increases, this is one of the most understandable.
This is not something you should skimp on given our EU wide responsibilities and the stakes.
The one that probably ticks the most boxes is New Zealand because it has a similar population, 5.22 million versus 5.3 million. Both countries also have comparably sized civil services. New Zealand has almost 64,000 civil servants versus our 53,000.
The bad news is that New Zealand came joint sixth in the index and wipes our eye on all four measures, particularly in people and processes (they come second and we come 57th). The only area in which we come close is public policy (we come eighth and they come 6th). For the record, they are placed 12th for national delivery and 11th for strategy and leadership.
It’s probably a bit simplistic, but both countries seem to be equally good at coming up with policies, although we are much worse at getting them done. Could the fact that New Zealand civil servants seem a much happier bunch than our own be the reason? Could the fact that there are 10,000 more of them explain the difference?
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