Set the right example from the top tier down

There is something seriously, perhaps even terminally, wrong with our governmental management and control systems if functionaries in State agencies can decide to ignore the rules when it suits them.

The fact that they ignore those rules which impact on their own pay packets while penalising the population with poor service and targeting those who can least afford, it is bordering on criminal.

Simultaneously reducing the pay and conditions of its own lower level employees is simply an object lesson on how not to treat your employees and deserves every reaction it gets. It underpins the impunity that some people seem to have and the total lack of responsibility and accountability that exists in much of our public sector.