Paul Murphy respinge Super Juniors: “Niente più musi al Leinster House Trough”
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/people-before-profit-and-dail-eireann-6620025-Feb2025/
di CrayonComrade
Paul Murphy respinge Super Juniors: “Niente più musi al Leinster House Trough”
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/people-before-profit-and-dail-eireann-6620025-Feb2025/
di CrayonComrade
9 commenti
Lenister House trough? Taxpayers’ expense
He’s right as well. It’s just a sweetener for TDs who didn’t warrant a ministry position at the expense of the taxpayer.
>But while we have a Constitution that limits the number of Ministers to 15, we will not allow the government to breach it in order to fit more snouts at the trough of government.
I hope he wins anyway…..it’s just robbing taxpayer with jobs for the boys
How much did the trough cost though, I heard it was made from rare metals with a fancy cover
I do think we need a referendum to have more than 15 ministries though. Some of the super juniors are heading what should be standalone departments. Like the whole sport brief thrown in with a load of other stuff…
Don’t agree with his politics but have to concede that Paul Murphy is very articulate and well informed.
I would disagree on this, the state has vastly expanded and we need more top level ministers to manage the functions of government. There is no way I can see a referendum on raising the number of ministers passing so this is what we’re stuck with to allow for that.
Is it a little bit “jobs for the boys?” Yes. But I don’t see a better way to have responsible people heading up government function and just not having them is not a real solution
When’s his match with El Desperado?
So, the super juniors may well not be kosher in their current form. But in general as a country we do have a sort of knee jerk reaction against spending money on politics. The “it’s only jobs for the boys” ignores the fact that we are a significantly larger and more complex country than when the constitution was written, and there are comparable countries that operate significantly larger numbers of ministries. Denmark has 25, New Zealand has 20, for example.
When you break down the mainline ministries here we have 3 Ministers who formally have 2 departments (Simon Harris has Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence, Dara Calleary has Social Protection and Rural, Community Development and the Gaeltacht and Darragh O’Brien has Climate, Environment and Energy and Transport) and the names of those departments highlight how much is funneled into one place. Jack Chambers now covers all of public expenditure, infrastructure, public services, reform and digitalisation. There’s two or three ministries in that brief.
Our system requires political attention for the civil service to be empowered to get things done.