Better not underpay the politicians anyway, weâd get some awful useless cunts if we didâŚ.more teachers maybe.
Increase the number of TDs by 8.75%,cut the salaries by the same amount. Simple!
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And put a big push on to get more teachers involved
14 new TDs all teachers will free up a few teaching posts. Not permanent ones unfortunately.
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Itâll actually be 28 teachers because theyâre all only going to get part time contracts 
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That looper Mick Barry was newstalk this evening talking about income inequality and he started blathering about the many other âequal societiesâ that have existed in history. The presenter asked him to give a few examples of such and all he came up with was, and I quote âthe cowboys and Indians.â
Thereâs the left wing alternative.
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McWilliams pod this week on infrastructure investment was good. I take him with a pinch of salt always but he had a good guest on this week discussing it.
Basically, infrastructure investment should not be done by paying a private contractor. It should be in house and you can hire private people if you want but the government should have expertise to know whatâs a fair price and whatâs not.
Itâs something I have thought myself a long time.
Itâs fairly intuitive really if you are factoring in a profit margin for these companies then you are overpaying massively.
Experts compared the price of building a KM of underground all around the World and it wasnât cheapest in the poorest countries or more expensive in the richest countries. There was no correlation. Other than if the government runs it themselves with their own engineers itâs cheaper.
It translates into everything really I think. Wonât hire new nurses to save money on pensions etc. Hire in on contract instead. Pay unijobs or whoever a massive fee, get workers who donât stay because itâs not permanent. Start again.
Train nurses in Ireland, come out and no permanent jobs, despite huge amount of empty rolls, they leave and we pay recruitment firms to go to the Philippines instead. While the nurses we paid to train we have had very little benefit of and are over in Australia.
Itâs a bonkers system to save a few bob short term that ends up costing infinitely more
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I think it was around 2010 when a Janapese firm had finished some big tunneling contract in the UK. They had all the gear right next to us and offered to build an underground from Dublin city centre to the airport. Theyâd pay for everything and operate it privately for ten years, before handing it over to the state. Of course we told them to shove it up their hole.
The problem is that our public service are so incompetent, theyâll fuck everything up. Look at the state of the childrenâs hospital. The government awarded a tender to a contractor without specifying actual requirements for the job. You couldnât trust the cunts to do anything right.
The DAA are paying 200-250 million for a tunnel under a runway. Great value.
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There should be a return of service for anyone in the medical field who gets training and university paid for by the state. Three years is fair. Buy out if they want, but three years guaranteed pay and hours after qualification and the country benefits from the investment.
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Is there any correlation between the directly elected mayor in cities across Ireland and the C40 schtick below I wonder.
Iâm extremely dubious about how this was being sold. You arenât getting payback in 10 years for that sort of thing.
I do know that vested interests have blocked efforts from overseas previously.
Very odd behaviour from comrade Murphy.
Sinister
Mehole being mehole.
Youâd expect it from someone on here but not a sitting TD
Does this mean the word infectious is now offensive?
Yes
So if one was to say âSinn Feinâs appeal is infectiousâ that would be offensive? That seems overly PC. This is the sort of thing that annoys people.
That is a bit sinister