New ministers should get proper training before taking office

Dropping members of cabinet into their new posts without any real induction process is like allowing the most popular passengers to fly the jumbo jet, says Enda O’Coineen

WHEN someone starts a new job involving massive budgets and huge numbers of personnel, they are given training and brought up to speed on what the work entails.

Unless, that is, they are elected to the Government. Indeed education and policy, scarcely got a mention in the recent election — not least lifelong learning and the radical reform necessary.