No. Social protection, revenue, HSE etc need to have regional offices.
It was a total clusterfuck. Our HQ was put down the country in the ministers home town and not even near anything else to do with law
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There should be a situation similar to Germany . The finance system in Frankfurt , capital in Berlin , etc . Too much centred on Dublin .
Again - that’s fair enough. Don’t forget about another 25% of the fiscal space is going on tax cuts - everyone thinks there should be more tax but aren’t as fond of the idea when it’s them paying it.
I think the hiding behind the EU is also a fair point but thank fuck for it - our parties would struggle to ever make a hard (I.e affordable) decision without it. It’s the only basis on which I hope that if FF get back in they don’t destroy us again by trying to please all comers.
Oh tax increases were permanent but pay cuts were temporary. Nice one for the insiders and vested interests.
Don’t you vote for Labour?
Whoooooosshhhhhhh!
What town was that?
Sometimes, yes, sometimes no. Always voting for the same party regardless would be the actions of a moron.
Whoosh!
Ambiguous answer to a pretty straightforward question.
The ordinary cop, no matter what wage or years put down, has a shit life now. That i can assure you of. Its fucking dreadful.
You’re either a fucking idiot or you don’t understand the word ambiguous. I imagine the first is correct. There was nothing ambiguous about my answer.
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You’re better than this. Pay cuts were temporary and were stated to be so. Tax cuts not so, it’s been widely acknowledged that the tax base was eroded and was too small and that increased taxation was necessary. Might not suit you but there it is.
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You’re the idiot, a straightforward question answered in a yes/no whichever way the wind may blow fashion.
There’s plenty of people in that boat though. I’d argue that it’s not the wages that are the root cause of that, it’s the interaction with the population, who, as is sadly often the case, have in part taken the a from the UK, and begun to have a default position of mistrust and disrespect for the very people who maintain civicsociety and public order.
I’d hate any of my snappers to be gardai to be honest. You’d just see the worst side of human nature.
Decentralisation was a decent idea, but it should have been all decentralised to the same place, like Portlaoise or somewhere central, not thrown around piecemeal to different places around the country.
Portlaoise could be Irelands answer to Brussels then 
Imagine all our civil servants in one massive compound, with no excuses for mileage visiting other departments or anything. Move the fucking Dail down there as well while they are at it, save us the mileage for the Healy Raes.
I presume art is talking about the legal aid board which ended up in Caherciveen of all places Blatant cronyism but sure isn’t that what it’s all about.
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The most bizarre thing to come to the town since the RIC Barracks
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Or cahirsleeveen as some may have christened it
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They lack modern social skills alright.
But i doubt any public sector worker is as overworked now or under as much pressure. 1 cop covering 30,000 people now is a regular thing where i live. Same cops are being put under phenomenal pressure to do paperwork as well as everything else.
Apparently there was Fire Brigade jobs up in Waterford, 4 spots i think abd around 8,000 applicants. Large amount of them were cops by all accounts. Now that would clearly indicate its not a money thing.
I do agree though, their training and cultyre has to change. But tHts not the job of Garda Tom or Joan.
I honestly think they should have mandatory go pros. It would protect the good ones, and maybe help people understand how provoked they are, as well as either outing, or blunting the bad ones.