Seanad debates
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Organisational Review Programme: Statements
There is a major mismatch between personnel and positions at the moment, with many able public servants in the wrong places, doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. The spending of vast sums of public money is not being done correctly. Based on the report we are discussing, as well as others such as the McCarthy report and the White Paper on local government, I hope we will get the answers we need in the coming years which will enable us to fill in the gaps. After 90 years of the State's history, there are too many gaps. Perhaps the greatest mistake we made was in failing to change a Civil Service that was largely colonial in its make-up and never adapted to Irish conditions, even though the country itself has gone through several changes in its administration and its form of Government. I hope the debate in this House will be informed by these lessons, and I know many Members will express impatience for action on reports such as this.
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