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This is not an especially radical proposal – outside of the constitutional change necessary to enact it – but it would, I feel, make an enormous difference to the attitude to public money that is too often pervasive across Ireland’s public sector.
From the Union point of view, a Government is rarely weaker than when it is about to face the electorate.
RTE is still spending vast amounts of taxpayer cash, for very dubious returns.
By any measure, this is an extraordinary increase in the demand on the asylum system in a very short timeframe.
the Taoiseach’s attack, dishonest though it may be, is a clear indicator of where Fine Gael intends to go at the next election
It’s a strange country, where people hold Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to a higher standard of competence than they hold people who receive millions of euros in taxpayer funding.
The Peter McVerry trust is illiquid, not insolvent. It should be forced to take its losses, sell some property, and learn its lessons.
And the political class, as a whole, lacks any interest in holding the administrative state to account.
A Government that has doubled health spending, and managed to make the system worse, should not be praised for announcing further budget increases.
there is one person employed by them for every three households accounted homeless in Dublin
Billions are being spent in the hope of providing future care while in the current world, the waiting list for kids with Scoliosis is a scandalous five years.
“Lessons have been learned” is a cliché in Ireland for a reason. It’s because the reality is that lessons are never, ever, learned.
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