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  • Originally posted by sofa View Post
    We were very proud of holding the high moral ground being the first in the world to ban smoking in pubs and getting rid of plastic bags.
    Wouldn't we be a shining light in the world to be the first to ban our armed forces.

    Don't laugh the nancy boys are in charge.
    We are beaten by Costa Rica , since 1948, they have security elements but no standing Army. We are overcome by ruritanian decision makers whose oversight agencies close creches, Homes, cut back medical staff and infrastructure, allow insurance companies and banks run riot, fine hospitals with no money, take pensions off state pensioners, and spend 42m on e-voting machines, and 1.6mm on a printer. They are also the worst project managers in this world at overruns.

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    • Originally posted by ancientmariner View Post
      We are beaten by Costa Rica , since 1948, they have security elements but no standing Army. We are overcome by ruritanian decision makers whose oversight agencies close creches, Homes, cut back medical staff and infrastructure, allow insurance companies and banks run riot, fine hospitals with no money, take pensions off state pensioners, and spend 42m on e-voting machines, and 1.6mm on a printer. They are also the worst project managers in this world at overruns.

      Berlin's Airport project would like to weigh in on that.

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      • Originally posted by ancientmariner View Post
        We are beaten by Costa Rica , since 1948, they have security elements but no standing Army. We are overcome by ruritanian decision makers whose oversight agencies close creches, Homes, cut back medical staff and infrastructure, allow insurance companies and banks run riot, fine hospitals with no money, take pensions off state pensioners, and spend 42m on e-voting machines, and 1.6mm on a printer. They are also the worst project managers in this world at overruns.
        I think you are getting people mixed up - the Project Managers are not the decision makers. The Decision makers make the decisions and the project managers are required to manage projects that they know are going to go pear shaped but have little input into changing.

        Politicians are quick to blame civil servants for a lot of their own failings despite the fact that a civil servant can't do anything without ministerial oversight and approval of everything from budget to staffing levels to procedures. The civil servants also get it because they are usually the bearers of the bad news. In a lot of cases, the civil servant is trying to make a silk purse out of a pigs ear; they get the blame because the politicians promised the silk purse and needs someone to blame when the silk purse does not appear.

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        • Originally posted by Poiuyt View Post
          I think you are getting people mixed up - the Project Managers are not the decision makers. The Decision makers make the decisions and the project managers are required to manage projects that they know are going to go pear shaped but have little input into changing.

          Politicians are quick to blame civil servants for a lot of their own failings despite the fact that a civil servant can't do anything without ministerial oversight and approval of everything from budget to staffing levels to procedures. The civil servants also get it because they are usually the bearers of the bad news. In a lot of cases, the civil servant is trying to make a silk purse out of a pigs ear; they get the blame because the politicians promised the silk purse and needs someone to blame when the silk purse does not appear.
          The game gets lost when the project committee, usually chaired by the APO or in some cases a PO, and their staffs, become after a time, read into the project underway and slip in their own view of what Brand of item should be included to make up the project item whether that be a ship or building. The advisers are feeding them notions on how to save money-plastic pipes instead of metal---galvanised pipes instead of copper. They have no problem with telling you the level of armament that can be provided for the money OR it is to come from a current Defence budget on a trade off eg. a gun for you and no trucks for the Army.

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          • Originally posted by ancientmariner View Post
            The game gets lost when the project committee, usually chaired by the APO or in some cases a PO, and their staffs, become after a time, read into the project underway and slip in their own view of what Brand of item should be included to make up the project item whether that be a ship or building. The advisers are feeding them notions on how to save money-plastic pipes instead of metal---galvanised pipes instead of copper. They have no problem with telling you the level of armament that can be provided for the money OR it is to come from a current Defence budget on a trade off eg. a gun for you and no trucks for the Army.
            APOs and POs don't have advisors & they are working within the budget....set by the Minister or Minister for Finance/PER. As I said, they have been handed a projects that requires X money but they only have Y. And their options are do it for Y money or don't do it all. At the end of the day, it is the Politicians at the top who make all the decisions.
            Last edited by Poiuyt; 20 December 2019, 17:47.

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            • Civil servants advise on and implement Government policy. They are supposed to be the SMEs

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              • Originally posted by Poiuyt View Post
                APOs and POs don't have advisors & they are working within the budget....set by the Minister or Minister for Finance/PER. As I said, they have been handed a projects that requires X money but they only have Y. And their options are do it for Y money or don't do it all. At the end of the day, it is the Politicians at the top who make all the decisions.
                It now seems that the in-coming administration will, under the guise of their published Policy Paper on Neutrality and Defence, remove much need for equipment or upgrading/modernising of the PDF. They are particularly sceptical of PESCO and the EU program of mutuality in Defence and financial supports. It would be ironic to imagine how Defence and Intelligence will run in the new scenario and how many will have sleepless nights after files are dredged. Get the incinerators going now and start with a CLEAN sheet.

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                • Hopefully their time in government will be short, but I predict a lot of score settling in the interim.
                  For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                  • Will the new brigade be the 3rd Northern Brigade

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                    • Scale of issue has been updated. All troops are to be issued with balaclavas.

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                      • Originally posted by Pegasus View Post
                        Scale of issue has been updated. All troops are to be issued with balaclavas.
                        What's the update with the introduction of ni gloves, sunglasses and US web belts to replace sd1?
                        For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                        • Not forgetting Neutrality being put into the Constitution

                          Pulling out of PfP and the military aspects of EU



                          Until Brexit, SF was an anti-EU party

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                          • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                            Not forgetting Neutrality being put into the Constitution

                            Pulling out of PfP and the military aspects of EU



                            Until Brexit, SF was an anti-EU party
                            Whatever goes into the Constitution, it should include an oath appropriate to high office, with mandatory penalties an exclusion from all Dail and council offices for those found to be acting against good order and expected discipline, including uttering support for illegal organisations.

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                            • But what about fine Gael and (insert irrelevant whataboutery here)?
                              For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                              • Originally posted by Pegasus View Post
                                Scale of issue has been updated. All troops are to be issued with balaclavas.
                                Arms drill manual to be amended to include baseball bats .
                                Don't spit in my Bouillabaisse .

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