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    An Bord Snip Nua?

    Heard it mentioned on some radio station that it is due to report in 3/4 weeks time...would have thought it will delayed now until after June 5th at the very least!

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    June 5th... why does that date sound familiar...?

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    That term was banned by a consensus vote here last Autumn. The punishment decreed for transgressors, as I remember, was to be pelted with gravel and to have chewing gum put in their hair. That vote might possibly have only taken place in my mind but I feel you must accept your punishment anyway....

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    I despair in humanity when I hear of hair-gumming. It's just not on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by toxic avenger View Post
    That term was banned by a consensus vote here last Autumn. The punishment decreed for transgressors, as I remember, was to be pelted with gravel and to have chewing gum put in their hair. That vote might possibly have only taken place in my mind but I feel you must accept your punishment anyway....

    A little bit harsh...would have thought!!


    However...the quango who are to examine the reconfiguration of all and sundry aspects of the public service are due to report in 3/4 weeks time....delay until June 5th....me thinks?


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    It's the "Cutbacks Committee"!!!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by toxic avenger View Post
    That term was banned by a consensus vote here last Autumn. The punishment decreed for transgressors, as I remember, was to be pelted with gravel and to have chewing gum put in their hair. That vote might possibly have only taken place in my mind but I feel you must accept your punishment anyway....
    There wasn't a vote as such (at least not one to which I was invited). There was however a thread that never really caught fire - http://www.politics.ie/economy/40271...euphemism.html. Probably because the name is so obviously a cringeingly obsequious euphemistic piece of focailling contrived by a bunch of fawning pol corrs cooing at Cowen's feet.

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    It will be another hatchet job on the Public service but we'll be waiting for it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silvio Dante View Post
    It will be another hatchet job on the Public service but we'll be waiting for it...
    If it takes out 90% of the quangos and huge chunks of the government funding of special interests groups, it will be worth it.Then about 25,000 to 30,000 non essential civil/public sector workers and we will finally be getting back on the road to recovery.
    Unfortunately for the people last in,there is simply too many people employed by the state in these non bubble times,IMHO we will not see these times again for at least another 10years.
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    Any move to compulsary redundancies will be the final nail in Ireland Inc's coffin as we will close it down... The Brians know this however so I suspect it will be a very generous VER scheme throughot the PS, cutting back on allowances, OT etc and we who are left will be expected to take up the slack on worse conditions...

    There's plenty of negotiating to come and I'll have by plackard at the ready...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silvio Dante View Post
    Any move to compulsary redundancies will be the final nail in Ireland Inc's coffin as we will close it down...
    That's quite a big threat from a guy on one of the lowest rungs of the civil service ladder. Of course there are going to be compulsory redundancies. It has to be done. What part of "we cannot afford all this excess baggage" don't you get?
    "Je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse." - Pierre-Simon de Laplace to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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