{"id":224,"date":"2017-07-06T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/new-report-highlights-great-need-to-improve-openness-and-effectiveness-of-irish-civil-service\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:40:50","slug":"new-report-highlights-great-need-to-improve-openness-and-effectiveness-of-irish-civil-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/new-report-highlights-great-need-to-improve-openness-and-effectiveness-of-irish-civil-service\/","title":{"rendered":"New report highlights great need to improve openness and effectiveness of Irish Civil Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new\u00a0International Civil Service Effectiveness Index, launched today (see link\u00a0here<\/a>), has highlighted several deficiencies in the Irish Civil Service. Comparing the Civil Service of 31 countries, Ireland comes in 6th<\/sup>\u00a0last.<\/p>\n

Ireland scored high in Human Resource Management and Tax Administration but low in terms of regulation, risk management, social security administration and openness.<\/p>\n

R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall of the Social Democrats said, \u201cthe report should be a wake-up call for the Civil Service and the Government. While it does well in certain categories, it should be a matter of deep concern that we continue to fall behind other countries in terms of regulation. If we have learned anything from the economic crash, it should be about the importance of robust regulation.<\/p>\n

We also score poorly in the whole area of openness. We need to bring much greater transparency to the operation of government and the public service. It\u2019s time to open up the whole of Government. This should include<\/p><\/div>\n