Dealing with oil spills

farmerboy01

Hi , I would like to raise the issue of the Fire brigade having to deal with minor oil spills on roads, particularly during the day, Mon to Friday when the council workers are at work, After all, they are being paid to look after the roads, are at work , Instead , at least in the cootehill area of Co. Cavan, the fire brigade is called out , 7 or 8 of them costing 260 - 270 euro per hr when 2 or 3 council workers could deal with the same thing ,,, I know the council pays the firemen but bill could be reduced considerably by using men who are already there and are not paid anywhere near callout fees for firemen, Same could be said for fallen trees, council workers have access to a digger and it would be more efficient at moving a tree than the aforesaid firemen who I hear can work quite slowly and really make the job pay ,,,,, all this money poorly spent reduces the money in the pot for road repairs which I think we all agree are badly needed,

my3cents

Who is going to the the work that the council workers were scheduled to do while they are dealing with an oil spill?

farmerboy01

In this area esp. at this time of year council wworkers have not got a lot on in terms of work and at other times most of the work is contracted out , I mean, there are the usual few lads that are "floating" and can go where ever they are needed , not looking to knock anyone , but money needs to be saved in the Co, Council

chopper6

Do you think anybody with a mop can just rock up and clean the oil spill?

Do you know anything about removing hazardous chemicals from a public thouroghfare?

farmerboy01

Hi, yes actually I do know about cleaning up "hazardous substances "from the public road, and Co. Council workers happen to know as well,

AlekSmart

chopper6 wrote: »

You don't know anything

I think he knows something ...but he's just not telling

Godge

farmerboy01 wrote: »

Hi , I would like to raise the issue of the Fire brigade having to deal with minor oil spills on roads, particularly during the day, Mon to Friday when the council workers are at work, After all, they are being paid to look after the roads, are at work , Instead , at least in the cootehill area of Co. Cavan, the fire brigade is called out , 7 or 8 of them costing 260 - 270 euro per hr when 2 or 3 council workers could deal with the same thing ,,, I know the council pays the firemen but bill could be reduced considerably by using men who are already there and are not paid anywhere near callout fees for firemen, Same could be said for fallen trees, council workers have access to a digger and it would be more efficient at moving a tree than the aforesaid firemen who I hear can work quite slowly and really make the job pay ,,,,, all this money poorly spent reduces the money in the pot for road repairs which I think we all agree are badly needed,

Rather than the taxpayer picking up the bill, we could ask the farmers on whose land the trees fell from to pick up the tab for the fallen trees or ask the farmers whose battered old tractors leaked the oil all over the road to pay for the clean-up.

farmerboy01

Godge wrote: »

ask the farmers whose battered old tractors leaked the oil all over the road to pay for the clean-up.

Assuming you actually find the "battered old tractor" and believe me that's not always easy to do, Anyway , all I'm suggesting is that having council workers do some of these jobs might be a more cost effective way of dealing with things

Paulzx

farmerboy01 wrote: »

Hi , I would like to raise the issue of the Fire brigade having to deal with minor oil spills on roads, particularly during the day, Mon to Friday when the council workers are at work, After all, they are being paid to look after the roads, are at work , Instead , at least in the cootehill area of Co. Cavan, the fire brigade is called out , 7 or 8 of them costing 260 - 270 euro per hr when 2 or 3 council workers could deal with the same thing ,,, I know the council pays the firemen but bill could be reduced considerably by using men who are already there and are not paid anywhere near callout fees for firemen, Same could be said for fallen trees, council workers have access to a digger and it would be more efficient at moving a tree than the aforesaid firemen who I hear can work quite slowly and really make the job pay ,,,,, all this money poorly spent reduces the money in the pot for road repairs which I think we all agree are badly needed,

This is nothing more than a dig at retained firefighters under the guise of an "economic" thread.

Chemical Byrne

It doesn't really matter does it? I mean the fire brigades are generally a detachment of the local authority anyway so what difference does it make regarding cost. Giving them work like this might be a way of channeling additional revenue their way if the budget for the year was tight.

Anyway, what's this got to do with economics?

Mod, move this somewhere.

Paulzx

Chemical Byrne wrote: »

Anyway, what's this got to do with economics?

Mod, move this somewhere.

Nothing. He has some sort of issue with retained firefighters and the "speed" they work at

chopper6

Paulzx wrote: »

Nothing. He has some sort of issue with retained firefighters and the "speed" they work at

council workers have access to a digger and it would be more efficient at moving a tree than the aforesaid firemen who I hear can work quite slowly and really make the job pay

Yeah..they must be getting paid by the hour.

Godge

farmerboy01 wrote: »

Assuming you actually find the "battered old tractor" and believe me that's not always easy to do, Anyway , all I'm suggesting is that having council workers do some of these jobs might be a more cost effective way of dealing with things

So long as we charge the farming community for their pollution and the costs of cleaning it up (including the pollution of the water supply) I don't care who does the work.