Passport chaos: unions hit the wrong target

IMMEDIATELY after the breakdown of talks with the Government late last year, the lower paid civil servants said they intended to take industrial action in the new year.

I sent a letter to the unions suggesting they should not upset the general public directly and instead focus on government administration, ie, union members on a go-slow in the Dáil itself.

What they have been doing at the Passport Office in Dublin is shooting themselves in the foot.