Monthly Archives: October 2012

JUST OVER a third of the 48 State agencies earmarked for abolition or merger in 2012 will have completed the process by the end of the year.

Last November, the Government published a list of 48 bodies which it said would be rationalised by the end of 2012, including the National Roads Authority; the Railway Procurement Agency; the employment rights bodies; the State’s galleries, libraries and museums; the Equality Authority; and the Irish Human Rights Commission.

Detailed information disclosed by the relevant Government department in response to queries by The Irish Times has shown that only 17 of the 48 abolitions will have been completed by the end of 2012.

No doubt a quasi autonomous non governmental agency will be set up to look into this.

Only 17 out of 48 quangos to be abolished or merged this year (Harry McGee, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Daniel Sullivan writes:
So the IT is selling off it’s celtic tiger stock and ireland.com email is going. We’ve not even been given a month’s notice to redirect all the various registrations we might have had to a new email address.
I’ve used the service almost from the off, even was a paying customer back in the day, and now I’ve got less than month to update various registrations for all sorts of services whether for Linkedin, Blacknight, Xbox, Popbitch etc. with a new address. A bloody thoughtless mess. Surely a re-direct for a couple of months isn’t too much to ask for.

Anon writes:

My mate Des Hickey lost his iPhone a few months ago. He lost all hope of getting it back when it never showed up on the “Find My iPhone” app.  Fast forward 2-3 months later and his photostream gets to work, syncing in new photos with his original iCloud account.  End result? Geotagged poses and family photos.

 

Oh.

Des Hickey (Facebook)