Prefabs Sprout: short-termism for short people

[He3]

We don't know the figures here ... but a stench of waste pervades government spending

That's why FG & Labour should hire 6-7 professionals who'd crunch some real figures:

2-3 Fiscal folk (accountants though would consider other highly numerate business managers)
1 Economist
1 Ex Dept of Finance mandarin
2 senior business managers/consultants

Plenty of these are redundant right now but also professional services firms could supply them at cost

Use them to crunch the figures on instance level problems like this

They should also hire another team of 6 to do macro budgetary forecasting

Then they'd be a very credible opposition

cYp

That makes perfect sense. So it is bound not to get a second thought.

[He3]

Paul Gogarty just confirmed on News at One that as long as they get something 'for future generations', the Greens will not leave government. Education cuts bother him and it might be 'one of the things that they would pull out over', but that won't be considered before April 2010.

[He3]

Special report on this now on Prime Time.


One school offered to save the state over 30k a year nett by taking out a mortgage to build a proper structure to replace the portakabins.

The Department said no.

Some over-upholstered junior 'Minister' is just burbling on in justification of this absurdity. Some male version of Máire Hoctor, he is stumbling over his autocue/learned off lines.

'Some people are making a great deal of money from the provision of prefabs', one Laois Principal says.

One school offered to lend the money at three percent to the Dept to build a school, cheaper than the State could borrow on the money markets. The Dept said no.

The same supplemented junior 'Minister' is now parrotting a line about value for money.

The Department does not even know how many prefabs are out there housing our children.

[He3]

Classic.

The programme has just delivered a TV bullseye.

Using a split screen, they show Batt O Keeffe (speaking recently) and Seán Haughey (ages ago) reading word-for-word identical fob off scripted answers on how they are 'addressing' what is plainly an utterly irrational situation in Port Laoise. Is there an echo in the House?

Paul Murphy reported.

[Gabha Óir]

That conflation of the responses given by Sean Haughey and Batt O'Keefe in the Dáíl says it all about the government attitude to the problem. Hilarious. Somebody has to put that on youtube

[Limerick Lad]

Hilarious clip of Sean Haughey and Batt O'Keefe reading word for word parliamentary replies to Dail two questions on the building of new Primary Schools in Portlaoise.

[He3]

That conflation of the responses given by Sean Haughey and Batt O'Keefe in the Dáíl says it all about the government attitude to the problem. Hilarious. Somebody has to put that on youtube

We have the best paid parrots on the planet. No wonder the Green Party is happy to be in such a government. Parrot heaven. Better than Costa Rica. Irish Parliamentary Parrots don't even have to fly themselves anywhere. Choppers and jets are at their beck and call.

Why not have helipads in the school yard so the Ministerial Parrot can drop in for the prize ceremony?

[Gabha Óir]

We have the best paid parrots on the planet. No wonder the Green Party is happy to be in such a government. Parrot heaven. Better than Costa Rica. Irish Parliamentary Parrots don't even have to fly themselves anywhere. Choppers and jets are at their beck and call.

Why not have helipads in the school yard so the Ministerial Parrot can drop in for the prize ceremony?

They could buy fold out helipads and send them ahead in a ministerial car in time for his arrival.

[He3]

There is a job for a mind like yours in Marlborough Street for the asking Gabha Óir

[Gabha Óir]

There is a job for a mind like yours in Marlborough Street for the asking Gabha Óir

And I could spend my day writing Máitín Ó Direáin type poetry longing for my native locality for future leaving cert syllibi. There's efficiency for ye.