If by system, do you mean democracy? All these problems are known issuesBut I think the 'system' contributes to this also....
I'm not in the public service - so I don't know how the 'system works'. I don't really follow politics either. But I am become increasingly dumbstruck on how we pay our managers to run the country. They are more formally known as Ministers for (insert department) & our civil servants.... but I refer to call them managers.... they are paid to manage Ireland Inc & are not doing a good job!
In the private sector, if a manager cannot account for what spend they are responsible for then they are shown the door. If they cannot effectively project or plan for the future then likewise.
Managers also need to manage expenditure - keep their house in order.
So why havn't out managers being doing this?
Over the last few years, Ireland Inc made buckets of money & our managers squadered it on electronic voting machines & subsequent storage of the equipment, allowed unquestioned spending levels in the likes of FAS & gave themselves nice payrises last year..... the list goes on.
Why oh why don't our managers lead by example &.........
- take significant pay cuts themselves (not just token levels)
- clamp down on department expendature (like massive allowances for posting out crap to their constituents)
- use the government jet for critical needs (as opposed to €8k per hour when flippantly used)
- cut high pensions for prev managers who although left the parties but returned to their own businesses or the private sector
- cut down on the number of managers - the amount we have in proportion to the UK for example is much higher
......... seems kinda obvious.....
Look at the pay our taoiseach gets ...its more than the president of the U.S. , France , Germany or the prime minister of the UK. A leader should lead by example. The rot and corruption starts from the top down. The head of our central bank gets paid more than the equivalent in the U.S.A., which has 100 times the population and is the worlds leading / biggest economy!
The fact the international financial community perceives us ( and penalises us with premium interest rates on our borrowings ) as the riskiest country in Europe to lend to, and riskier than many countries elsewhere in the world, speaks volumes.
And there's the big flaw in your argument. The public sector is by no means perfect (and I share your concerns about electronic voting in particular), but to position the public and private sectors as two completely different beasts has no basis. Here's just one example of the super-effective, super-efficient private sector;In the private sector, if a manager cannot account for what spend they are responsible for then they are shown the door. If they cannot effectively project or plan for the future then likewise.
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