Our Taxes are far too low for Our Expectations of Public Services

Your opening line is completely inaccurate. Our taxes pay for these 'free' things.

The state squanders taxes through incompetence and cronyism. Then the public are begrudged basic services.

Health isn't generationally bad because of not enough money. They want it so bad they can bring in more privatisation as a way of 'improving' it. Its the same thing they did with housing.

If the state was manged better and we got value for money people might see the point in paying taxes.

So you mean totally misleading 🤔

Weird site only using direct tax on wages that's it. Germany for example you get your full wage for x amount of time when you are unemployed here you get a fixed rate. Nothing in relation to cost of living and stealth taxes.

But that would not work here. We already waste so much money in Government. Your trying to compare Germans who have a world renowned knowledge of efficiency to our lot. Stupid stuff like if you don't spend your budget you will get less the next year. You will see the local council putting in unnecessary street furniture then removing it then putting it back in next year.

That would take a level of efficiency Ireland is not capable of in the civil service. Also anecdotally Don't we have the most civil servants per capita in the OECD ? Or somewhere close.

No I would hire one of the Efficiency agency's can't remember the correct term. Take a fine tooth comb to the civil service. Fire underperforming obviously after performance targets are not met. Root out duplication get rid of it redeploy if possible. Create one core software system for each department. Remove paper from the office completely digital. You could remove 90% of customer facing role "no kidding that's what the dole call you" redeploy. Same in most departments. Expand the mygov site to include everything. If face to face needed minimum via appointment. The list goes on.

Have you a link to that have been trying to find it. OECD info is a rabbit hole.

Thought so we outsource a lot to NGO's hence the running joke of Ireland only having NGO employment. You would have to include them as public servants imop. And they are completely duplicated.

158,000 is the information I have seen. How far off is that.

158,000 Should be larger now than 2018.

And what 2.3m employed in Ireland.

True but even the gov said what was it €350 during covied was livable. Doubt Subway pays that.

Your splitting hairs they receive gov funding just like what I quoted originally and why they were removed from figures. Their budget is irrelevant. You think they split the office 50 50 and pay one from gov and the others from their own budget.. Laughable. And again that was from 2018. Who do you think took up the slack in Covid. 🤔

3bn gone for the Ukrainian situation of the what 5bn surplus ?

71,100 out of 2.3 million workforce is 3.1%. Add that to the 15% of total government employees in the national workforce and you get 18.1%

You did not remove them. 2.3 million right there. removing 15% from 2.3 million would be less than 2.3 million. 2.3 is everyone with a job including gov.