Which government departments could we do without?

Grimreaper666 · 2010-10-15 18:11:46

There seem to be a lot of them that are just blowing taxpayer money and could really be done without or at least put on hold until things pick up in the economy. Desperate measures for desperate times and all that. Wouldn't it be nice for them to experience a bit of pain first hand for a change?

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#32 18-10-2010 04:53PM

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Johnny Utah wrote: »

I already said that.....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055973641

And from that thread:

Expensive for some road safety adverts! :eek:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0520/1224270711390.html

And reducing the amount of road deaths by 42%.

There's probably savings to be made there, but that's a lot more people alive.

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#33 18-10-2010 05:08PM

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Sports art and tourism. The only ''sports'' we have are ball games anyway, and the bleedin' GAA can look after them.

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#34 18-10-2010 05:10PM

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Defence. No need for it in a neutral country.

EDIT: And all groups dedicated to forcing Irish on people.

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#35 18-10-2010 05:33PM

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squod wrote: »

Sports art and tourism. The only ''sports'' we have are ball games anyway, and the bleedin' GAA can look after them.

someone might want to inform paul hession and derval o'rourke about that :rolleyes:

amazing how there are so many here who are so clueless as to how important tourism is here....

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#36 18-10-2010 05:41PM

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aDeener wrote: »

amazing how there are so many here who are so clueless as to how important tourism is here....

And our idiot government decided to stick a €10 tax on it :rolleyes:

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#37 18-10-2010 05:44PM

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k_mac wrote: »

Defence. No need for it in a neutral country.
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We've never really faced an external security threat.

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#38 18-10-2010 05:49PM

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Snakeblood wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0520/1224270711390.html

And reducing the amount of road deaths by 42%.

There's probably savings to be made there, but that's a lot more people alive.

The RSA wasn't mentioned once in that article. The reduction in deaths is attributed to "strict enforcement of road safety legislation" so the Garda Traffic Corps prob deserves the credit and the massive upgrading of our road network in recent years.

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#39 18-10-2010 06:10PM

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aDeener wrote: »

someone might want to inform paul hession and derval o'rourke about that :rolleyes:

amazing how there are so many here who are so clueless as to how important tourism is here....

That's the point. The department is a ****. Completely not worth the money to run it. If anyone with any interest in sports works there I'd be entirely surprised. Ditto for tourism, people who know f-all about this country still know not to drink the water in Galway.

Sports art and tourism is fuhked. Get rid of it.

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#40 18-10-2010 09:15PM

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efla wrote: »

Education. 4 million has been saved since last year by abolishing the governing authority of the NUI.

No, it hasn't. Next?

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#41 18-10-2010 09:19PM

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k_mac wrote: »

EDIT: And all groups dedicated to forcing Irish on people.

Yeah, but let's continue to finance all groups who force English on Irish people. Yeah, the retardation of my being forced to learn those pompous English arseholes for my Leaving Cert just entirely escapes the anti-Irish brigade who really think that Irish is the only language "forced" on Irish people. Catch yourselves on for the love of sweet Jesus.

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#42 18-10-2010 09:21PM

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Have to go along with Dept of the Taoiseacht. What, exactly does it do, anyway?

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#43 18-10-2010 09:24PM

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KindOfIrish wrote: »

Outsourcing is the solution. We can definitely outsource some of the Departments for much lower cost.

Yeah, let's just "outsource" the whole shagging lot to the Brits. They have such a record of superior governance over us native Irish (at least according to certain people on Boards.ie).

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#44 18-10-2010 10:50PM

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Johnny Utah wrote: »

I already said that.....

And here's your prize:

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#45 18-10-2010 10:55PM

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Most of the advisors / quangos, apparently the Government have in excess of 1000 groups of them.:(

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#46 18-10-2010 10:56PM

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Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Office of Tobacco Control, this would save €2.5 million a year, they basically tell us what we already know, smoking is bad. The HSE should be respnsible for this instead.

The HSE would probably cost more, the way they waste money.

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#47 18-10-2010 11:00PM

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I dont know if we can do without any departments but I would hazzard a guess that they are all overstaffed and overpaid, top to bottom

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#48 18-10-2010 11:08PM

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theres so many unecessary government departments that we need...

I can't name any because they are so utterly useless

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#49 19-10-2010 12:03AM

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R0ot wrote: »

And here's your prize:

Sorry about this, but... eh, is there a cash prize with that award?

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#50 19-10-2010 12:16AM

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department of the gaeltacht

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