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How easy is it to fire public servants who are bad at their job?

Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer at Forsa, joined Kieran Cuddihy on the show this morning to express his disagreement with Watt's comments about under-performing public servants

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14.14 4 Dec 2019


How easy is it to fire public servants who are bad at their job?


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14.14 4 Dec 2019


Under-performing public servants should be “managed out” of their jobs but good workers who deliver should be rewarded. That’s the view Department of Public Expenditure secretary general Robert Watt told the Oireachtas Committee on Finance about performance levels among public servants yesterday.

Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer at Forsa, joined Kieran Cuddihy on the show this morning to express his disagreement with Watt's comments.


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