Now the the EU is doing away with the Regulations on Straight Fruit and Vegetables, will there be deployment of the excess numbers in the Fruit and Vegetable inspectorate ?

Zhou_Enlai wrote:

I think an issue we should be looking at here is where State Agencies do jobs formerly fulfilled by the Departments.

In relation to each state agency, I would like to get views from people to know on the following issues:

- does it carry out functions previously carried out by Departments?
- If not, was the department well placed to carry out such functions?
- has its creation reduced the Government's ability to implement policy?
- has its creation meant that a lacuna of knowledge and expertise has developed in the Department.
- how accountable is the agency?
- has the agency successfully filfilled the role for which it was designed?

The trickle down costs of hiving out responsibilities are manifold. The public sector is not the private sector. Harney & McDowell are ideologues who have been proven to be, like most ideologues, only half right.


In relation to employee rights, there is clearly no need for another regulator. Already we have the LRC, the Labour Court, The Labour Inspectorate, The DETE Employment Rights Publications, The EAT and greatly increased roles for unions. All that was needed was to keep the DETE web page up to date with a new URL if necessary. I suspect this new agency is because the unions feel the Labour Inspectors in the DETE weren't biased enough in favour of employees and so it is about replacing people not functions.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Read 'em and weep.

State Agencies and Bodies

Soubresauts has a link to a CLR article too which might be useful.

Ireland needs to change its Financial Regulator. The Banks, Quinn Insurance and now the failure to act on the AIB overcharging scandal - one disaster after another. There should not be one person in such a position of power - there should be a Board and consumers should be the majority on it.

cactus flower wrote:

Ireland needs to change its Financial Regulator. The Banks, Quinn Insurance and now the failure to act on the AIB overcharging scandal - one disaster after another. There should not be one person in such a position of power - there should be a Board and consumers should be the majority on it.

Ireland sucks for feedback. You have to make a show on Joe Duffy's make a show show before someone listens to you. Then they say "that fucker made a show of us on Joe Duffy's show, he'll never get a reference from us, the basturd".

You're dead right - who better than consumers to make up these panels ? Quizmaster on p.ie started a thread recently where he found he was being charged double for something by BOI I think .. . I'll try to find the thread if you have read it already.
http://www.politics.ie/economy/36507-double-bank-charges.html

If thine fan belt or regulator breaketh, thou shalt replace it with a new component. Thou canst always use thy woman's tights for the fanbelt but lo! thou shalt be cast into the Pit for eternity if thou usest it for robbing a financial institution! It is the way of things that the Financial institution robbeth thee. Ekenievel 1.1.67