Autorità simile a una doga per la spesa pubblica in Irlanda? No grazie, dice governo
https://www.thejournal.ie/government-counter-doge-motion-6639832-Mar2025/
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Autorità simile a una doga per la spesa pubblica in Irlanda? No grazie, dice governo
https://www.thejournal.ie/government-counter-doge-motion-6639832-Mar2025/
di Conscious-Isopod-1
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Anyone remember An Bord Snip
and
An Bord Snip Nua?
No, we can leave that shite in america
Always trying to copy and paste bad shit from other countries. Never the stuff that works.
A body to examine government spending!?
Don’t be silly. Our ideological enemies are doing this so we can’t consider it a positive thing.
We’re the goodies y’see. And they’re the baddies.
Benefacts was a pretty decent tool at examining where the money for the NGO/Charity sector was going.
Instead of expanding it, to more Government organisations, it was closed.
I don’t think there are massive amounts of waste going on, but there is a massive lack of transparency in how money is being spent.
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Under no circumstances should we be copying anything from that shitshow administration across the Atlantic. They have single handedly destroyed the great work that USAID was doing in helping the world.
Think of the all good work that happens here in Ireland thanks to great charities, now imagine we go full Elon on it? No thanks 🙂↔️
Well of course we don’t want that here, without the attached weird US right wing ideology and massive over-politicisation, where would the fun be?
You mean like the Public Accounts Committee?
DOGE in America is a made up department, given to an unelected billionaire who is slashing much needed services all over the USA ppl just don’t realize yet as it’s only been a few weeks.
In those few weeks Musk has claimed he cut 8 billion from some contract when it was actually 8million.
Claimed ppl were stealing welfare as their age in the system was 150years old whereas it came out that the old legacy coding used in the software when it doesn’t know a person’s age sets it back to the beginning of that institutes setup which was 150years ago.
Am seeing loads of ppl online boasting this is a great thing and that “we need to DOGE” this that or the other yet nobody really knows the full extent of it all yet they just hear savings are being made and never consider it’s cuts to services they may need 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
They are firing park rangers, teachers, hospitals in the name of saving money while not worrying about the consequences. The USA is going to experience a massive crime wave with these cuts you can’t suddenly change the fortune of millions of ppl and have them not retaliate or fight to survive this will certainly lead to surge in crime
I mean, in theory not a bad idea. Just don’t give it to a megalomaniac billionaire who’s only interest is to destroy government bodies which regulate said megalomaniac billionaires business interests
Fuck off with this Yank shite.
Whilst Doge is a don’t throw the baby out of the bath water concept, the way the trump administration are utilising it is pointless.
They passed a bill which is going to INCREASE the budget deficits…
With Atlanta fed predicting a recession for USA, they will have even bigger deficits despite the cuts…as reduced tax revenues
And it could even end up as the ones who lose the jobs via government spend less, therefore more job losses in those areas (cafe’s etc).
So I am all for government efficiency…but the way Deparment of Government efficiency is going it will INCREASE the debt.
IMo USA heading for a severe recession, and the Tariffs will only prolong it…
I’d be up for exploring gov procurement and having alignment on benchmarking stuff. I’d also like if we had some reduced bullshit clerical work.
The thing though I don’t think giving the reins of gov to an unelected unhinged billionaire who has a vested interest in continuing his own businesses while cutting funding to people who are relying on that money.
His work is a fraction of a fraction of the money saved and I’m sure the money will just go to a tax break for the rich
Was this something they mentioned unprompted or did some journo ask “Would you consider a DOGE-like authority for Ireland?” so they could write a story before their deadline?
DOGE-like? No. Better oversight? Absolutely.
Should the government be more efficient with our money? 100% yes.
Should that manifest through arbitrary mass layoffs without a single attempt at strategy?
No. America’s gonna hit a serious economic speed bump through this gigantic uptick on unemployment, or knock on effects like veterans losing more benefits etc.
We don’t need to copy the US but our government institutions absolutely need to be reexamined. We have TWO tourism boards. Our planning board is not fit for purpose, neither is the health board. Tearing these down and rebuilding them every few decades would do wonders.
Almost like the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
We elect and pay TDs/ Ministers to run departments they should be accountable for the efficiency of their specific departments.
Every job I have worked in since college including the civil service has required at a minimum an annual performance appraisal where my performance is measured against predefined goals and management of department budgets.
Why isn’t there a system where the performance of minsters is measured against their parties political promises and the performance of their ministries. Their wages should be the national average with the ability to earn significant bonuses if they exceed expectations within their remit
I think it’s ridiculous anyone could think a department to oversee efficiency in public expenditure would be needed in Ireland.
Anyways, I’m off to bike shed about a bike shed and build the world’s most expensive hospital.
People not liking this because DOGE is in their mind.
What I like about this idea is it would recruit from the private sector. Also the PAC afaik just reports, it doesn’t have the power to make cuts.
The Irish civil service is extremely inefficient vs the private sector.
Not a big fan of Musk and I understand that the state needs to provide certain amounts of public services for society at large to function.
However, we have over 34,000 NGOs in this country and we also have an asylum system that sees billions poured into individuals to shelter fake refugees, while a large portion of Irish society is struggling to get by.
I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water on this one. We spend money like it’s going out of fashion and badly need to do something about it.
Edit: fixed spelling and wording.
DOGE like ? No. Better oversight? Yes.
We had Benefacts which at least was tangentially similar and the government stopped funding it