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Irish Chief Scientist: Stop analysing. Invest.

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  • 10-09-2004 1:38pm
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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    http://beecher.ie/pheed/?ssywbr
    The Irish Times reports that Ireland's newly appointed chief scientist has accused the government of spending too much time and money on studies of what is wrong without actually addressing the problems. In his first public address, Dr Barry McSweeney said the State lacked a positive science culture, was too risk-averse and had such poor infrastructure that it could not currently support much additional expenditure on research. Dr McSweeney said the first thing he would tell the government was "Stop analysing. Invest."
    Damn straight. The same could be said of ComReg: "Stop consulting. Bitchslap."

    adam


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    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    Look at the Information Society Report on Broadband from last year. A lot of resources went into creating that. What's been done with their recommendations ? Nothing.

    They warned we would be way behind Europe by 2005. I don't think they envisaged we'd be so far behind.

    Were the stark warnings in the Report listened to ? No.

    Look at the Oireachtas Report. What about their recommendations ? Any of them being carried out ?

    It seems to be a report, tribunal and joint commitee culture.


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