Seanad debates
Wednesday, 15 October 2003
Order of Business.
I notice that colleagues regularly raise the issue of delays on the Order of Business. I looked at the Order Paper for this House for this week and last week. Last week we had the accounts of the Higher Education Authority for the year ending 2001. Is that the best the Higher Education Authority can do? This week we have the accounts for the Dublin Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology, Tralee for 2001, which is two years ago. If public bodies have that attitude to legal obligations, how can we expect them to take seriously their obligations to citizens who want a means test for a grant processed in a reasonable time? There is an organisational issue about the proper delivery by management of public services. These are management responsibilities. It would be useful to debate the management of the public services. There has been much talk about the workers in the public service and their benchmarking award. It is about time we looked at those who get paid large salaries to manage those services because they do not seem to do a good job.
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