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THE CROKE PARK Agreement is a “cartel” which protects higher management and targets cuts at the most vulnerable, according to financial advisor and broadcaster Eddie Hobbs.
Hobbs said the deal between the Government and public sector unions “should not exist at all”, and did not help address the “reality” of Ireland’s economic situation.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Marian Finucane Show, he said:
This is the largest, most blatant cartel ever put together in any society under distress. We’re still not dealing with the reality that we’re grossly overpaying at the middle and upper end. And because they’re cocooned, with the cuts it’s always the most vulnerable [who are hit].
Hobbs added that the agreement was hampering progress in Ireland’s recovery.
Until this is dealt with, the objective of govt in Ireland is for the insiders to take money from the outsiders to protect themselves. And that’s what’s happening in the Croke Park Agreement. I don’t think it should exist at all.
Meanwhile management consultant Julie O’Neill, a former senior official in several Government departments, revealed that a group of civil servants had approached the then Government in the early 1990s saying that there was a dire need for reform in the service.
However, she said at the time there was not the political will to enact changes.
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I don’t know whether mine are near or far away.
I love father Ted but the repeated jokes, memes , “gas” hairy baby T shirts, never ending repeats on RTE (of a channel 4 sitcom remember) and now this really show how poor current tv comedy is.
@John Quill: Ah you can’t be saying that now.
@John Quill: Ah come on now, it sounds like you don’t love father Ted at all. Next you’ll be telling us you don’t love the lovely girls.
@D’oh: now you!
@John Quill: down with that sort of thing!
Got mine nice and quick,
The quotes are good but there’s better ones. Hope they will do another batch and not say down with this sort of thing.
@Matt Humphries: my all time favorite quote is this. *Trying to come up with lyrics to my lovely horse*
Ted: come on Dougal, think.
Dougal: How about, Take this sugar baby, you know you want it.
Ted: eh, no Dougal.
Cracks me up.
Scrap the idea, replace it with young offenders stamp, more representative of modern and enlightened Ireland
@Jimmy Carroll: is that why people are buying them? Hahahahaha …More repre…what? g’wan outa dat!
Is traditional mail making a come back?
I got mine but they are a bit boring. I was hoping for a holy stone of clonrichart or bishop Brennan getting kicked up the a***
@Edmund Murphy: Father Jack had better quotes, what about “DRINK!!!, ETC”
Got mine, but I’d like to be able to buy sheets of individual ones so I can use them and still keep my little booklet.
@Tricia G: you always want more Tricia
I’m eagerly awaiting mine!
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