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Could the Irish public sector benchmarking fiasco provide a case for the DPP?

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  • #2
    Fat_Fingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Fat_Fingers


    Yep, Bertie Ahern and FF destroyed Ireland with thier pals in Public service Unions, Banks and developers.


  • #3
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    It raises some interesting issues..........

    It is poorly written and raises no issues that everyone does not already know about.

    - while a reasonable idea, benchmarking was implemented in secretive and underhand way to give certain groups increases they didn't deserve. Known

    - not that much was delivered by some groups in return they weren't asked for much

    "The tens of thousands of unemployed, living in a silent shadow land, are their victims."

    This is complete and utter nonsense. Somewhat excessive pay to some parts of the public service may have lead to poorer public services than there should be. But it did not cause in any way the present crisis. The government had a flawed macro-economic model of the economy. In good times they overpaid for things, not only the PS but also roads, lawyers etc. They could have had better value, but with a flawed macroeconomic model they would have used the savings to either have increased the range of services to spend the money or would have given more tax cuts. These might have benefitted individuals, but would probably have lead to even higher house prices. Either way the crash is a function of the macroeconomic failure, and is scarcely related to benchmarking, good or bad. The crash is function of bad decisions by bankers, developers etc and a government that could not see what was happening.


  • #4
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,022 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Who is this DPP case going to be against?

    If its the government (or individual members of the cabinet) the answer is no, as parliamentary privilege would cover them there.

    Most self proclaimed free speech absolutists are giant big whiny snowflakes!



  • #5
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    The guy who's written that essentially wants the DPP to bring a case against members of the government (and previous governments) for acting in a manner equivalent to reckless trading.

    There's no provision in law to bring a case against members of the government (and previous governments) for acting in a manner equivalent to reckless trading.

    He should know that.

    Even Eamon Gilmore's tirade against Cowen was particular about calling it "economic treason", not "treason" in a legal sense.

    That's a no.


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