Government must decide what its priorities are

I WROTE to your newspaper in 2007 pointing out that the boom was over and the bizarre sense of entitlement in the public service would ruin us.

To any economically literate citizen, the huge payoffs to civil servants, politicians included, is a huge provocation to us in the private sector who provide whatever wealth is left in this benighted country.

The outrageous payoff granted to Dermot McCarthy, the retiring Government Secretary, is a good example of a government that treats the wealth-creating private sector with contempt. If Mr McCarthy was retiring from a company he would need a pension pot of about €4 million.