One cannot help but ask: why does this project still exist?
To put this in context, that total funding equates to an annual budget of over €220,000 for every child in Tusla’s care.
That the people working for the state, at almost every level of public administration, exist in a culture where efficiency and accountability is shunned, but fecklessness and incompetence goes unpunished.
Increased demand on healthcare, pensions
Spending spree. Again.
The modern Irish state’s problem has not been money and has not been money for a long time.
The Department of the Taoiseach was the biggest spender.
“Such has been the systematic infantilisation of Irish popular opinion that this dependency is not a subject for national shame.”
Office of Public Works
The budget surplus for this one year alone in Ireland was projected by the Minister for Finance in April to be in the order of €8billion.
You might argue – might – that €350,000 is an amount of money that should be below the notice of Ministers, but you’d be making an argument that only an idiot should believe.
We are spending an additional €30billion annually – can a politician point to €30billion’s worth of betterment in Irish society? Is the Health Service better? Are the Gardai more efficient? Why do we still have a crippling teacher shortage?