Comments on: Government by SpAd

By: spad algeciras

spad algeciras — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:08:56 +0000

Gracias siguán publicando felicitaciones buena publicación

By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:46:20 +0000

I think it’s becoming clear that the report was a cut-and-paste job. We’ll never hear of it again.

By: Martha Schuhart

Martha Schuhart — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:18:54 +0000

I think your question “How can it be a joined up government if this document was just rushed together by special advisors” is apt. I’ve commented elsewhere (http://www.politics.ie/economy/39129-smart-economy-thick-about-daa-plans.html) how the second ‘key action’ in ‘Action Area 4: Investing in Critical Infrastructure’ is the DAA’s shelved investment plan for Dublin Airport. The DAA’s announcement of the scale-back in investment appeared in papers on the morning that the Smart Economy document was published as if those plans were still going to happen in full. That’s not even joined-up media handling, never mind joined up government.

But the report seems to have died a death anyway. Will we ever hear of it again?

By: barry

barry — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:59:28 +0000

I don’t think I’ll bother reading it. I took the trouble to look up Clinch – according to the Indo when Cowan appointed him

“It is expected his main task will be to advise policy initiatives to help the Government meet climate change targets while maintaining a secure economy.”

It looks to me like he was in his office last week when Cowan phoned,

“you’ll do, write me some guff on a framework for development. After all you worked in West Africa on that sort of stuff; next Thursday, OK? ”

Bye, Barry

By: Cian

Cian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:47:32 +0000

http://www.entemp.ie/press/2008/20081118.htm

Looks very like the new 500million announcement presented yesterday. Only it was announced a month ago.