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Wednesday November 24, 2004 13:52 by BertieWatch
Minister for Finance publishes two reports from Decentralisation Implementation Group The first report deals with the selection of organisations/locations for inclusion in the first phase of moves. The second deals with the financial implications of the office accommodation aspects of the programme and the procurement methodology. Both reports are available on the decentralisation section of the Department of Finance website at www.finance.gov.ie. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Unbridled arrogance! None of the scientists want to go to Clonakilty and only about 5 of the existing administrative staaf wish to go. This "government" is prepared to run this agency with inexperienced unqualified staff.
If my employers decided to move the work premises down the country Im sure Id get two choices- Move with them or sign on! Ive no pity for these whingers!!!
Thata the spirit! Workers should have no rights! They should go and do what the boss says!
The only thing red about Red Bhoy is his neck!
RED BHOY - many employers would love to have a passive patsy like you!
So if you ended up in Clonakility - god help us, as the locals say - you would thank local resident Joe Walsh - former Minister for Agriculture, for having pulled the strings that got your agency there. He's a smart man as his supporters say but you would hardly be smart for not seeing through the political strokery.
If Red Bhoy's company wished to relocate they would do so (I would imagine) for sound economic reasons - in the case of civil and public servants our employers have not been able to advance one single sound reason for this proposal, economic or otherwise. As to the allegation that we are whingers...I would argue that civil and public servants far from whinging are concerned with the delivery of their services and the impact that this ill conceived idea will have on same. IMPACT have already come out strongly to highlight the loss of organisational memory which will result from the low levels of interest among state agency staff where organisations have been "fast tracked" - SIPTU will no doubt follow suit. Some of us have been given a reprieve and now we must in solidarity with our colleagues oppose the movement of those in the 7 agencies targeted. Tom Parlon is a bully and the only way to make a bully stop is to stand up to him!
Tom Parlon, a leading light of the non-Statist PDs did a good job rattling the tin ponny for public welfare for himself and other farmers - amounting to 65% of farm income.
What is ironic is that Parlon is in charge of a shambolic decentralisation programme while he opposes reform of the corrupt system for allocating land for development. By maintaining the staus quo where a political decision on rezoning can increase the price of land 20-fold - even 40 miles from Dublin- big scale projects such as the development of a second airport for Dublin or centralising all Government Departments on the periphary of the city, cannot be considered in contrast with what is done elsewhere.
Last May, Parlon was with Mary Harney when she said in an address to her party members at the launch of the Progressive Democrats' Local Elections' Manifesto: 'In this manifesto, we are... committed to ending private windfall profits arising from re-zoning decisions.' In an ad-lib, she had the gall to warn that she might have the Competition Authority investigate hoarders of development land- like her referrals of so many other issues to avoid having to make descisions.
Nothing has been heard from Harney on development land since.
The semi-states are even more shambolic.
Apparently handful of FAS workers out of 400 want to move. In Bus Eireann - already a highly and neccessarilly decentralised entity - another handful want to go.
Not sure about the rest but I would not be surprised if Dublin Bus was next.
Thinking about decentralisation and then the peak oil production report also on the newswire got me thinking about the long term logic of decentralising, increasing communication distances between departments as fuel becomes more expensive. Surely the aim of a smoothly operating civil service which is vital for a country structured like ours is not being served in the long term. Just a thought.