Start with Angela Kearns who earns in excess of € 450,000 per year from her jobs with the government. It’s more than double the world leaders wages. Her family members and relatives even outsourced jobs to their own factory in China while at the same time she is placing people from the rehab into our factories. Talk out being competitive as a country. She stopped that activity but still kept her job — Why? She is one of the highest paid in the world for running a rehab. Stop this immediately as we borrow 1 billion to pay this woman – and a few more like her insane.

He accused all of us who disagree with his assessment of this as ‘simple’.
Thats what he said.

Well I have a simple message for him, the next time he or any member of his party come to my door there will be a simple message for them.

Like the FFers who took the large pot of pension gold and Retired, he and his mates will probably do the same.
They only have a few more months left to qualify.

Maybe we are simple.

Hilarious stuff, if he honestly believes that…… we are &@$@ed

Perhaps they should begin with their own increments eg ‘turning up allowance’ and show themselves as statesmen as we expect them to be!

Well listening to Howlin on the radio was worse than getting a tooth pulled without Novocain

SAVING IN TIME? WHOSE TIME? MY GRANDCHILDRENS. How can this so called minister be allowed stay in office is beyond me. To actually come out and make a press statement, that out of a 1000 plus allowances he can only MAKE ONE CUT! We must be the laughing stock of political circles around the world.
When are we going to get politicians into to power we can at least respect?

“We can’t solve all the problems in 18 months” … sure, but you could have done a lot better than this pathetic performance Howlin. You set the target, and you failed.

Spin and yet more spin. It’s a pity we cannot put a tax on that. I know the reduction in PS numbers is held up as a good news story but can anyone put a figure on (a) what the pension cost is and (b) how many who left had to be re-hired on a temporary base and what that cost??

A snivelling little coward who was just as useless in Government first time round. Himself, Gilmore and Bruton have destroyed the Labour Party in the same way Gormley and co destroyed the Greens.

Could it be that FG are orchestrating a fiendishly devious approach to slashing the public sector?
Masquerading as not being too keen on making the cuts themselves, and sticking loyally to Croke Park, FG are apparently being urged by ‘everyone else’ to be more aggressive in slashing benefits and perks. Even the Unions are urging them to cut more than they are.
Sheer brilliance.

Howlin seems happy enough to continue borrowing 1 billion a month to finance a bloated public sector. His lack of urgency in not stopping the waste of our money on ludicrous allowances is incredible.
Theres no hope for Ireland with cretins like him in power

Anyone notice the weight all these ministers have put on since getting into power. Their collective weight has doubled I’d say. Fat Cats Indeed.

What is Howlin on jees they are not in the real world

The private sector workers in Ireland have been sold into slavery to keep the public sector going.

I know it may be political suicide… But why isn’t there a movement to reform: government, civil servant administrative structure and legal structure. I understand that it would be difficult, however a plan with reviews would keep the progress in order.

For example:

Government: Begin with seperating National and Local Politics and responsibilities. No Local Councilor should have any bearing on national politics except as an average citizen. A national politician should have no influence on weather his neighbourhood’s street is paved except as being a member of the community.

Civil Servants vs Public Sector vs Private Sector: Each one of these categories are not the same and sould net be considered as such. Therefore, they should not be compared.

Civil Servant’s based on pay grades. Each job would have several grades. Each grade should have particular responsiblities and requirements that need to be satisfied before a person is hired in at a grade and eventually promoted into another. Job performance, experience, and on-going job related education should determine movement of grades. Further, if a person has reached the cieling of their grade, then they can apply and interview for a different role provided that they have the skills to completeb the task. Their pay shouldn’t change provided that the movement is lateral and the job requires the same level of challenges.

Public Sector: These jobs should only be supported by the governemnt through financial grants. Otherwise, this sector would run like a private sector.

The Legal System: Using the same concept as stated above for Civil Servants…. Add a more pro-active garda force, that would require garda to use enforce the laws that already exist on the books. For example, tickets to J-Walkers, tickets to drinking in public, tickets to those who are driving cars that are not safe: headlights & taillights out, noise pollution, speeding, driving while using the mobile, arrest and fine parents for their children’s anti-social behavior. If the parent, can’t control the child then place the child in a detention centre.

Yes difficult… But required.