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Yes I did put the forced and unecessary employment loss to good use. I didn't laze around scamming the taxpayer pretending to be "working from home" while on full public servant welfare, invisible from the unemployment statistics but a much greater burden to the taxpayer and adding to the national debt.

I do understand that the government is being forced to gradually privatise/contract out many previously-public services due to waste and intransigence of the not-fit-for purpose public sector. This means the services are delivered efficiently, staff deployed where required rather than where it suits them, can be dismissed and held accountable; all of this being the antithesis of the public service.

Yeah I read that article at the time. The ps propaganda machine was cranked up due to growing public disquiet over many public servants being off work on full pay. The article couldn't be more vague using terms such as "some" and "dozens". It's a circular argument about public servants being unemployed on full pay and virtually impossible to prove, which public servants know full well of course. An FOI request could be made but I doubt it would be of much use with much redaction and GDPR clauses.

There just couldn't be an official record of publicly paid employees being off work on full pay while anyone in the private sector had to survive on the PUP-there'd be uproar which would perhaps bring about the long-overdue reform.

As for the EWSS, I know business that profited from such state supports and while this is annoying, it's a one-off as was the €60Bn spent on propping up the financial system. Whereas public sector pay is €23Bn a year, every year and rising exponentially.

Businesses and employers were forcibly shut by the government not themselves 😂. I know public servants exist in a cosseted bubble but surely even you must know this?

The private sector carries out many state functions now-local development companies and agency nurses to name just two. The cost is high but not in the long run as there's no superannuation to pay, staff deployed when and where needed, services available when they're needed. In summary, public services to suit the public not the cushy lives of public servants.

"Reductions in working conditions" = actually fulfilling the purpose of the public service (which FYI is not to pay wages)

"Racing to the bottom" aka the market rate for the job rather than some makey-uppy time-served incremental rate 50% above the private sector equivalent.

Oh did you think there was an obligation to reply? Most unusual for a PS employee to reply even when they are obliged to.

I don't own an ass. Do you have a thing for the horse family?

Public holidays are a challenge for many public servants as their productivity level is about the same as a working day. Same goes for retirement.

And now with the added difficulty of "working from home", it's been one long public (servant) holiday since March 2020.

Yet you keep giving credence by replying 😂.

Is it in the employee manual to ask for proof and "facts", which by their very nature are obviously not available?

The issues with the public service are embedded-there's no great revelations or a particular instance. The pandemic was just another opportunity to be exploited to the nth degree, which the public service does with aplomb.

The only embarrassment warranted is the monstrous inefficiency and cost of the public service but its apologists are unabashed.

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Oh so because I don't disclose the names, addresses and employee numbers then "I'm full of crap".

Do you expect me to list the people I have direct knowledge of in this thread and if I don't it's apocryphal?

I have first hand experience of PS employees defrauding the taxpayer in this way, it's rife.

But keep asking for the personal details of these people and when I fail to provide them sure I must be making it up.

No there aren't-public servants documenting their own sector unemployed on full pay for 18 months plus?

That'd be like asking a car clamping company to clamp its own wheel.

The record will give euphemisms such as "working from home" "contact tracing".

Teachers are a prime example of "WFH" aka sending out a daily generic lesson by email yet on full pay.

Selling off the family silver is a bit harsh- putting public servants on private sector style employment contracts would more than suffice.

Opening up the state utilities to competition was an EU competition requirement, nothing to do with "selling Bord Gais".

The PUP is an appropriate acronym "Public servant Unemployment Payment" however there was a slight difference in this than the other (pleb) PUP in that the former were on full pay and were not counted in the unemployment statistics whereas the latter were on a time-limited banded income-related payment.

The time and day of your reply is noteworthy-Sunday morning at 9am; if only public services were available at such times, when they're needed by the people who need them.

But 7 day service only applies to defending ones own cosseted position, sadly.

Oh what was asked for then?

What would it take to stop you repeatedly asking for rhetorical proof/evidence?

Are you suggesting there's a chance of you ever admitting this happens, regardless of proof? It's just standard public servant rhetorical questioning.

I find expenses are harder to fiddle in the civil service than they were in the private sector. Where am I going wrong?