Terry Prone: State needs to cut out high-level waste
My message to the new Dáil: Our reliance on bureaucratic procedures as a comfort blanket needs serious looking at
Originally published in the Irish Examiner.
Dear new Government,
Terry Prone here, for the Irish Examiner.
You know that ho ho ho you’re hearing? Of course, it’s coming from Santa. The word is that he heard about the Oireachtas bicycle shed and is in stitches that a thing without walls, doors or windows, designed to shelter the relatively few bikes belonging to TDs and senators could cost hundreds of thousands.
Sure, what could any of us do other than laugh?
Maybe it’s the small footprint of the bike shed that makes it permissible to snigger about the money issue, whereas the cost of the new children’s hospital would wipe the smile off the face of the most good-humoured among us.
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