Cork TD, Deputy Bernard Allen has slammed the decision by the government to establish a special group to examine the public service saying that he doesn't have much faith in the move. Yesterday (Wednesday, November 26) the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD announced details of the establishment of a Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes which will look at the efficiency of the public service, the numbers employed in the sector and the scope for reducing or re-focusing their existing range of Expenditure Programmes.

Deputy Allen described the group as "just another quango" and said that government Ministers should take responsibility for expenditure in their own departments without having to have a working group come in to examine it. "There are enough Ministers and Junior Ministers who are supposed to be doing this job in relation to spending within their departments and we don't need another quango," he said.

He said that he believed that this working group would not be able to deal with the urgent issues which need to be addressed immediately and said that the establishment of the group was "an excuse to offload responsibility onto another body."

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