Fianna Fail - great at spending money, bad at getting value.

[SPN]

I was just watching Prime Time and listening to Dick Roche shyte-ing on about how much money they have spent on Water in the last 5 years. €3.7 Billion or somesuch.

Every time somebody points out a catastrophic failure in some public service or other the trite FFailure response is always to tell us how much money they have spent on it in recent years.

Will it ever dawn on them that they are not paid to spend as much taxpayers' hard earned as they possibly can. They are paid to oversee the delivery of better public services.

You can't get planning permission in most towns and villages in Waterford and Kilkenny because the water and/or sewage systems are way over capacity and there is no money forthcoming to build the necessary infrastructure.

Another two people were killed on the N11 yesterday because there is no money to remove a series of extremely dangerous bends (possibly the most lethal stretch of road in the Country).

They do have lots of money to build over-specced (and therefore multiples more expensive) Motorways in other parts of the Country, but not to address a lethal stretch of road - with dual carriageways at either end of it - on the road to one of Dublin's fastest growing suburbs (Gorey).

PPARS - doesn't work!

PULSE - doesn't work!

eVoting - doesn't work! (They've been working on it since 2001 - new software releases every 13 days - but it still doesn't work!)


Hundreds of Millions spent ("Hey, aren't we great. We spent hundreds of millions!").

Sweet FA delivered!

It's time .....

[The OD]

It does indeed seem to be the case that this is the mantra they spout at every available opportunity. I dont want them to spend money like it ist theirs (it isnt) - I want value for money for all the taxes I pay, stealth and standard.

I would propose Dick Roche resign immediately as I doubt there has ever been someone so unsuited to a ministerial position as he is - Environment Minister?

Clueless idiot Minister more like.

[EvotingMachine0197]

Good post SPN. And The OD, I second your proposal.

I saw that bit of shyteing-on last night also. But they're all at. They have this definition in their little heads:

"The quality and efficiency of public services is directly proportional to the amount of our (because they really do think it is theirs) money we spend on them".

Does it come from a FF handbook or something?

[Universal_001]

Whever health comes up, they quote the percentage increaces and the increaces in raw spending.

Leaving out the following..
-Our health spending in 1997 was starting from an INCREDIBLY low base
-Most of the money went on administration not capital costs like beds
-The entire adminsitrative system was full of trap doors for said money where it literally dissapeard into the massive bureaucracy.