A low-paid public servant says ‘I have had enough’

EVERYONE has seen the huge waste in public money over the past 10 years or so... countless projects gone belly-up and over-budget. Ireland is the last place in the world that anyone in his or her right mind would set up a business unless the individual in question happened to be an artist, musician, stud farmer or in the greyhound industry.

The cost of electricity, insurance, oil and gas, petrol and diesel, rental of premises, local authority rates and PRSI are simply extortionate before we even consider the day-to-day cost of living — grocery shopping, health insurance, etc. This has been the case for many years and no one in Government refused increases to semi-state companies when they came a-begging for their executives’ top bucks.

Have the prices of electricity, gas/oil, petrol/diesel dropped lately? No — but it’s our fault for putting up with this nonsense.