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Privatisation Poll

arcadegame2004 · 2004-07-04 18:34:38

I generally agree with privatisation, except in the rail sector, as it is very hard to see how competition could work in such a natural monopoly. I favour the privatisation of Aer Lingus, Aer Rianta, ESB, Bord Gais, Bord na Mona, and Dublin Bus, however, as I believe that economies perform better when the State avoids…

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#62 09-07-2004 9:31pm
ressem

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re: 125,000 to ESB workers

Perhaps due to memories of Rhode peat burning plant?

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/05/31/story178398433.asp

no electricity could be produced at the plant for 2 years, but the staff were working following procedures and carrying out maintanence.
Then a voluntary redundancy payment beyond the dreams of most people.

Sorry, but as someone in private sector computing who's hovering at the edge of redundancy for about 4 years now, not through incompetence (well not enough to get me laid-off), the mind winces in disbelief at the reports (many of which are exaggerated of course) of public sector practice.

Then we hear about the way projects are so badly implemented and not completed. Not just the major ones where there's some complexity, but the trivial ones that we hear about from parents and friends like networking a 20 person office that hasn't been completed after 3 years, payment up front, computers reaching obsolence in a warehouse, while the more dedicated people provide their own resources to try and do their job.

So... I'm torn like a politician between seeing family laid off and actually getting services that might work.

Best cop-out I can come up with is that any state body that won't make it practice for people to be fired or demoted for mistakes, and rewarded for competence, rather than seniority, should be privatised, otherwise beat up management till they get it to work.

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