Last September Dublin city council could renew a driving licence in a few days. From what I remember the old price was €35.
Last October this service was given to a private company monopoly.
The main argument for this was, the public sector service was inefficient and
expensive.
The new efficient monopolised service increased the cost to €55.
The new efficient monopolised service increased the cost to €55.
The monopolised private service now also takes six weeks to
conduct the process of renewing a licence.
The process of visiting the building
to participate in the process takes a minimum of two hours.
How can anybody in their right mind state that this is an
improved and more efficient service?
The private sector can always hire PR consultants to
manipulate the media, and accountants to present certain figures in a
particular light that is favourable, while they present public sector figures as
unfavourable.
The facts above however, speak for themselves.
The public service was far higher quality than the private
sector monopoly is providing, and this experience should be borne in mind when
the government tries to replace public services with private sector monopolies,
backed up by legal requirements for citizens to avail of these services.
It’s a bit like the #irishwater debacle.
The next blog in the next few days will cover that.
€50
million on consultants, and, from what I can gather, they have not covered the
issue of your home accessing the public waste mains.
