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Make it private and save the state some money...

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  • #62
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    You can buy a FAKE passport on the black market. If you could get a genuine one under false pretenses, that would be a lot more dangerous.

    no, you can buy a real genuine straight from the passport office passport, the same as driving license et al, to think otherwise is daftly niave


  • #63
    cypharius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭cypharius


    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    Ok, the purpose of this thread is state which part of the public service could be sold off and run by a private company.
    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    1) Passport office.
    Passports are something that we need, privatising this will mean only the uber-rich can get passports, as private companies only care about profit, why would we privatise it?
    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    2) HSE Wedding Ceremonisers. They won't work Saturday so everyone going to a state wedding has to take a day off work because one person won't work on a Saturday.
    When we finaly get Gay-Marriage pushed passed the bigots and fundies the private company might not provide marriage to them. "And oh no, a day off... how dare they? Those lazy bastards!"
    We're not talking about a single saturday, we're talking about every saturday, these people are entitled to a social life, what do you suggest? Should they go clubbing on a sunday? We need people to have lives, otherwise there isn't as much cash flowing around.
    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    3) RTE 2. See no reason why we need this station.
    Why not get rid of them both?
    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    4) 2FM same as above.
    Again, why not both?
    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    5) Add your's here...
    All art gallaries.

    But I will say that simply privatising everything won't help, we need to cut funding to things that aren't public, eg:Catholic Schools, not all students can go to them, so why should we fund them? The Catholic Church aint exactely short on cash, and we need to have a more secular society.


  • #64
    PeakOutput
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    cypharius wrote: »

    Passports are something that we need, privatising this will mean only the uber-rich can get passports, as private companies only care about profit, why would we privatise it?

    what are you talking about privatising it wouldnt change who had access to passports in the slightest


  • #65
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    I imagine a privatised service like the passport service would not be in the interest of national security....

    Just look at what happened lately


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    Permabear
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  • #68
    silverharp
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    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    I'm thinking Ryanair-style healthcare. It's a frightening prospect.

    I know, its distusting the way Ryanair and companies like it made easier for working class immigrants and others to keep in touch with their families back home.

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