Folly to negotiate over superfluous jobs

The problem with negotiating with the leaders of the thousands of workers who hold superfluous bureaucratic ‘jobs’ is that many people are starting to feel sorry for these public servants.

Most of the public servants are shedding crocodile tears for themselves.

Had it not been for Fianna Fáil (and, yes, that very much includes current party leader Micheál Martin) and its ludicrous irresponsibility with our economy, thousands of these bureaucrats would never even have had those ‘jobs’ — which we could not then, and cannot now, afford.

The aim of this government should be to force the State’s many so-called managers to become real managers and to get the job done with 25% fewer employees.

The managers never needed these staff and simply expanded their incompetence to find uses for them.

A less aggressive approach is merely playing games with our future, as the last government did.

Dick Barton

Tinahely

Co Wicklow