Divorce between managing the economy and managing public spending is harming the country

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : At its administrative heart is what is referred to as "DPER", the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform.
49% : Responsibility for public administration is political.
45% : Public sector reform, a priority coming out of the crash, was sidelined a decade ago in an ineffective report that was only partially implemented.
45% : [ Fiscal council says government spending has 'lost its anchor'Opens in new window ] The Government re-arrives in office after an accretion of power to the economic departments of Finance and DPER compared to the Department of the Taoiseach.
45% : This leaves a dysfunction where, having failed to restrain government spending, DEPER is responsible for largesse it believes is excessive.
45% : But the divorce between managing the economy and managing public spending is now harming the country.
39% : Administrative inadequacy and political delinquency feed off one another.
38% : Further, as it is entitled, it rejected official advice on public spending, and then broke fiscal rules it set for itself.

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