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The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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Cabinet Reshuffle.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this serious or is it a circus? Government policy seems to boil down to a mish-mash of ideas about competition, privatisation - and really a dash of laissez-faire mentality about public services. However there seems to be a bit of old-fashioned loyalty to state enterprise and social policy generally. Have the PDs already produced - through their ally Charlie McCreevy - an irreversible and seismic shift in public policy. Or is the political pendulum beginning inexorably to swing back in the opposite direction? For the last hour or two I have been reading in the Sunday Independent (the source and origin of most of my scant knowledge of current affairs) about the "form" in the race for position in the cabinet reshuffle which unavoidably arises out of Charlie McCreevey’s appointment as Ireland’s new European commissioner. To tell you the truth I scarcely remember who even the "certainties" are. |