Is it asking too much for estimates of billions of spending of taxpayers money in the next four years?
How much will the public sector pay deal cost? By year 2026-2030 (2030 is important because that will show the permanent baked in increase). And how much specifically will it cost in 2027 versus the #
Budget27# allocation of €1.2bn.
How much will the deal with the solicitors cost? It's likely to be ~€20m in 2026 but that's just an inhouse stab at it, there are no costings at all from the Dept of Justice. How much in 2027?
And has any informal undertaking been given to rank-and-file Gardai who called off their industrial action this week. And if so (almost definitely has), how much?
Imagine if we had some mechanism which could obtain & transmit such information from the politicians/government to the citizens who are paying for it all? An intermediary between government and citizens, maybe call it "media". Just a mad idea!