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Martin : FF no longer toxic brand
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BuilderPlumber wrote: »That is all very true about coalitions. Most of the recent Irish governments have been poor and all have been coalitions. The jury is still out on this government, we will see what happens by 2016. A major problem is that Ireland's elitist culture transcends party politics. For example, fiascos like CRC or Irish Water would happen no matter who was in power.
They certainly have dropped the ball badly with the CRC and Irish Water and how they sort them out will define whether this Government have been effective or not. As someone else reminded us the glorious leader of FF was the Minister of Health when the Bertie Board of the CRC were appointed. He is certainly being very quiet at the moment
We need both a healthy, job creating public and private sector. We need to get rid of overpaid officials at the top and all those consultants (Irish Water, etc. come to mind). Also, people with no intention of ever working and who scrounge off of social welfare have to be tackled - I don't mean genuine unemployed here but the 'doleman' culture where people prefer to be unemployed and scrounge off the state forever. Billions can be saved here without damaging our frontline public sector jobs and services. With regard to the private sector, more entrepreneurial initiates need to be established and an environment healthy for new Irish SME startups to succeed needs to be established. Rent, rates and insurance need to be reformed bigtime here.
When I say overstaffed I certainly don't mean the front line staff, they are being sacrificed for the layers of fat that are in the system above them and specifically the seat fillers who have been promoted for no other reason other than they have been around the longest and into positions that were created by the disastrously Bertie conceived social partnership.
Just look at the HSE it is a prime example of waste on unnecessary staffing levels in back office departments at the expense of the front line. I know they are starting a "targeted redundancy program" but I fully expect it to be botched and in the worst case scenario they may even hire the retirees back like other Public Sector redundancy schemes because they let all the experience out of the sector they were trimming down.
Rents reform is another major failure by the current Government and certainly would make a major difference to struggling businesses and start ups. Rates would be directly connected with Local Authority reform and needs to be addressed, I have learnt this from directly researching setting up a business which we abandoned because of the costs involved.
As a current customer of the Social Welfare something does need to be done about the people who have not made an effort to ever get a job. We really need to have a diminishing rate of Social Welfare over the longer term but couple it with real relevant re-educational so they have the correct tools to get a job in the sectors that need them and to build their confidence. FAS or Intreo as it is currently configured is not up to this job as it is currently configured from my experience.0 -
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They certainly have dropped the ball badly with the CRC and Irish Water and how they sort them out will define whether this Government have been effective or not. As someone else reminded us the glorious leader of FF was the Minister of Health when the Bertie Board of the CRC were appointed. He is certainly being very quiet at the moment
When I say overstaffed I certainly don't mean the front line staff, they are being sacrificed for the layers of fat that are in the system above them and specifically the seat fillers who have been promoted for no other reason other than they have been around the longest and into positions that were created by the disastrously Bertie conceived social partnership.
Just look at the HSE it is a prime example of waste on unnecessary staffing levels in back office departments at the expense of the front line. I know they are starting a "targeted redundancy program" but I fully expect it to be botched and in the worst case scenario they may even hire the retirees back like other Public Sector redundancy schemes because they let all the experience out of the sector they were trimming down.
Rents reform is another major failure by the current Government and certainly would make a major difference to struggling businesses and start ups. Rates would be directly connected with Local Authority reform and needs to be addressed, I have learnt this from directly researching setting up a business which we abandoned because of the costs involved.
As a current customer of the Social Welfare something does need to be done about the people who have not made an effort to ever get a job. We really need to have a diminishing rate of Social Welfare over the longer term but couple it with real relevant re-educational so they have the correct tools to get a job in the sectors that need them and to build their confidence. FAS or Intreo as it is currently configured is not up to this job as it is currently configured from my experience.
I notice Martin and FF are talking bigtime about Irish Water but not the CRC for the reason you state. Martin is the wrong man to lead an Irish political party at present as he is so steeped in all the bad stuff that went on under Bertie and co. Martin also commissioned too many reports in his time and made many dodgy consultants rich.
Bertie's social partnership and also benchmarking were cons that allowed the political class and the top civil servants to increase their salaries four fold often. The guys at the very top creamed it off and Ireland's politicians climbed from being near the poorest paid in Europe to being the second best paid in Europe (after ......... Greece!!).
The HSE in general shows all that is wrong in government and our public service. And guess who was instrumental in establishing the HSE as we know it? A guy called Micheal Martin! Frontline staff cut back and plush office jobs created, with a view to protecting the minister for health from being blamed for inefficiencies in the health service.
Setting up a business is a very brave move and is hampered by high set up costs such as rent, rates and insurance. Far from being open for business, Ireland is often closed for business for many.
Ireland does need to get away from social welfare dependency, be it genuinely unemployed or 'dolemen'. Genuinely unemployed should be helped in every effort to get a job in their required discipline and given all the help needed. FAS, the VECs, third level colleges, etc. all need to be funded more to develop better courses for those willing to upskill. As regards the 'dolemen', they should also work too: no one has the right to decide to sit back and con the state out of money by refusing to work at anything.0 -
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