Centinaia di case per i senzatetto a Dublino a rischio come tenera per gestirli non attirano offerte
http://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/05/29/hundreds-of-homes-for-homeless-at-risk-as-tender-to-manage-them-attracts-no-bids/
di Dazzling_Lobster3656
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How is that supposed to work? A company should win a tender to earn money from housing the homeless?
The insanity that is the Irish State’s insatiable need to outsource literally every public function imaginable continues unabashed with predictable outcomes for everyone.
1) charities over stretched when providing the service, subsidising delivery via crap terms and conditions for workers and charitable donation;
2) local authorities and state departments denuded of any actual responsibility except for “procurement”, “management of service providers”, and “strategic planning” (i.e. passing the buck when things go wrong, and paying out cheques) – or like here, left holding the can with no capacity legally or resource wise to actually provide a service directly;
3) service users losing out year after year, while the state continues to pour millions into more and more elaborate ways to get NGOs or private businesses to provide services that only the State really can or should.
I’d say there is plenty that are interested but they don’t qualify to apply due to the government’s ridiculous application standards. From personal experience, a job came up in the government that I was perfectly qualified for (its not a level 8 degree but a lot of courses and years spent getting experience, ontop of an apprenticeship and two level 7 degrees), but they wouldn’t even let me apply because I didn’t have any level 8 degree. And I mean any, they didn’t care if it was a level 8 in a completely unrelated area of work, just that a level 8 was required.
They just don’t get it that there are some services in an economy that only the government can directly provide