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About LinkBacksCome on Biffo, start the housekeeping on the two job teachers and perhaps non-practising solicitors retaining paid consultancy roles, without relevant experience.
Come on Biffo, start the housekeeping on the two job teachers and perhaps non-practising solicitors retaining paid consultancy roles, without relevant experience.
The Dail is currently awash with school teachers because of this crazy arrangement that just doesn't seem to exist for any other candidate. e.g. Has anyone seen George Lee on TV since his political demise. He certainly didn't slot back in to his old role.
No offense intended to school teachers but the reality is that the skill set and experience required to teach primary school kids does not translate to running a country or heading up large organisations e.g. Dept of transport.
They are all taking about job creation at the moment when between them they haven't created a single job in their lives. Most have absolutely no experience whatsoever of the private sector which generates the tax revenue to run the country.
Could you ever see a school teacher with no commercial experience whatsoever on their CV being recruited as CEO of any business even just a small SME. Yet these people are finding themselves in positions probably equivalent to the CEOs of some of Irelands largest PLC's.
No wonder we are where we are as a country.
In our democracy any eligible person can put themselves forward for election. If they get enough votes they will become a TD.Originally Posted by pstar30
Do you want this to be changed?
How? To exclude Primary teachers?
To exclude anybody who has not "created a single job in their lives"?
To exclude those "with no commercial experience"?
There was an SF candidate in Dublin South who was a plumber. Would you object to his "skillset"? Do you think he has enough "experience" on his CV" to take on a job which is the equivalent of being a "CEO in a large PLC"?
Should plumbers be excluded?
By the way, we "are where we are" precisely because a few "CEOs" and "wealth creators" made an unholy mess of things....
Along with an...em..accountant(?) named Bertie, a solicitor named Cowen, a lawyer named Lenihan...(did Seanie ever do a bit of teaching, I wonder?)
we are where we are because, amongst other things, of a lack of smarts on the parts of the regulators to understand and properly monitor and regulate certain individuals (rather than doffing the cap to them)
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