Ministerial advisers

mariaalice

The Domnic Cummings issue it go me thinking.

How come ministerial advisors or party advisors are not more well known in Ireland the way they're in the UK.

Anyone influencing public policy and from that potentially having an impact on how we are as a society or are governed should well know and their views know? If they are not prepared to be put their face behind the advice or poicy they should not have the job?

KaneToad

mariaalice wrote: »

The Domnic Cummings issue it go me thinking.

How come ministerial advisors or party advisors are not more well known in Ireland the way they're in the UK.

Anyone influencing public policy and from that potentially having an impact on how we are as a society or are governed should well know and their views know? If they are not prepared to be put their face behind the advice or poicy they should not have the job?

Plenty of people influence public policy - there is a myriad of interest groups that lobby & influence the govt of the day...CIF, VFI, AA, NALA, Barnardos, RCC, Iona, SPUC(!)...etc...

I don't think individual ministerial advisers in Ireland are as powerful as you suggest. Most ministers are bound by party policy under a whip system.

mariaalice

KaneToad wrote: »

Plenty of people influence public policy - there is a myriad of interest groups that lobby & influence the govt of the day...CIF, VFI, AA, NALA, Barnardos, RCC, Iona, SPUC(!)...etc...

I don't think individual ministerial advisers in Ireland are as powerful as you suggest. Most ministers are bound by party policy under a whip system.

A fair few appear to be ex-journalists?, maybe it's a wider question all lobbying to influence should be more front stage in public discourses, the social policy anylistists the NGO's employ, who are they what is their background, the PR companies businesses employ and the party advisors politicians employ.

Basically anyone swirling around in the background should be pubic knowledge.

blanch152

mariaalice wrote: »

A fair few appear to be ex-journalists?, maybe it's a wider question all lobbying to influence should be more front stage in public discourses, the social policy anylistists the NGO's employ, who are they what is their background, the PR companies businesses employ and the party advisors politicians employ.

Basically anyone swirling around in the background should be pubic knowledge.

https://www.lobbying.ie/


The information is there, just a few problems

(1) Nobody is very interested in it.
(2) It relies on self-declaration.

mariaalice

blanch152 wrote: »

https://www.lobbying.ie/


The information is there, just a few problems

(1) Nobody is very interested in it.
(2) It relies on self-declaration.

Its about much more than that though.

mariaalice

https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-the-taoiseach/

How come there are no photos of the senior management?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/the-people-behind-leo-varadkars-leadership-victory-451666.html

All should be more well known in public life not just in media circles.