Should we pay Civil Servants to Emigrate?

[Oppenheimer]

We could export them to other Countries and give them a gratuity of one years Salary to go, along with an option to return to fill natural wastage after the public service has contracted by 20%.

It would make most sense to export those in the higher pay scales.

Am I nuts?

I don't really understand the idea - are you saying we can't afford them so we need to be rid of them to save the burden on the economy? That is contradictory to giving them a year's salary - if we can't afford them we can't afford the year's salary - we really need to be more imaginative about saving money.

[CookieMonster]

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Lenihan is too thick to have come up with this nonsense on his own(or anything else either).

Lenihan is a graduate of Trinity, Cambridge and the King's Inns, he's far from thick.

[katy brock]

Lenihan is a graduate of Trinity, Cambridge and the King's Inns, he's far from thick.

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I'm a graduate of UL and UCC. I may not be very bright - but you think I'm an idiot. That's your call.

P.S. If my daddy was a minister I'd probably have dossed around Cambridge for a few years as well.

P.P.S. Any fool can attend King's Inns. They take in 100 per year, 80 who pass the "exam" and 20 ahem..."special cases".
I know quite a few barristers who work in clothes shops, chippers etc. Because they aren't well connected.

Please don't confuse academic "qualifications" with intelligence.

[Right is right]

Lenihan is a graduate of Trinity, Cambridge and the King's Inns, he's far from thick.

I would sooner he had studied finance/accountancy so he had a clue about what he was doing (same applies to Cowan the incompetent)!!!

[CookieMonster]

I would sooner he had studied finance/accountancy so he had a clue about what he was doing (same applies to Cowan the incompetent)!!!

I don't think he is a very good choice for Finance Minister, but he is far from thick. I'd rather him looking after the State's finances than some of the special FF cabinet members/TDs.

[Big Bobo]

Lenihan is a graduate of Trinity, Cambridge and the King's Inns, he's far from thick.

There really is nothing money can't buy these days

[CookieMonster]

There really is nothing money can't buy these days

Yes, a graduation with first class honours.

[gulliblepleb]

I don't really understand the idea - are you saying we can't afford them so we need to be rid of them to save the burden on the economy? That is contradictory to giving them a year's salary - if we can't afford them we can't afford the year's salary - we really need to be more imaginative about saving money.

We cant afford our public service at the moment

add on the cost of the Bank Bailout
add the cost of the builder bailout
and the pnsions timebomb

[zachler]

You'd be amazed the amount of time mid & senior level civil servants spend doing 'political' work like Ministerial speeches, briefing and answers to parliamentary questions. All these new Junior Ministers have to look busy by making speeches up & down the country and they don't write them themselves. Political work is given top priority while actual policy work always comes a poor second. Its not the way most civil servants would like it but its the way it is.

[gulliblepleb]

It looks more and more like a good idea