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Fine Gael TD Michael Ring believes there has to be accountability in the public service if the country is ever going to join other nations in the 21st century

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring said there was no accountability in the public service. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

In a fairly recent Dáil speech, veteran Fine Gael TD Michael Ring was his usual bombastic self but he made a statement that, quite frankly, was hard to refute.

He said we have a dictatorship in this country. It is not a political dictatorship but a public service dictatorship and it has got to such a stage now that they think they are more powerful than the minister.