If the Government keeps passing buck, then why do we need it?

WHO IS in charge around here? There was a time when it was the Government that employed the nurses, the teachers, the gardaí and all the other public servants we need.

When public servants were in dispute, they were in dispute with the Government. When someone had to be held to account for a breakdown in public service, it was the Government. When we needed to find out who was responsible for what, ultimately it was the Government.

All that seems to have changed. Day after day, the nurses’ dispute is reported in the newspapers as a dispute between them and the HSE.