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As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.
Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.
If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you don’t have enough professionals.
@Tupp_ed Many public services in Ireland are stretched so thin that even having just enough professionals to deliver at 100% sounds like a pipe dream
@stancarey @Tupp_ed
Every year the HSE is pushed to breaking point by the entirely predictable and expected seasonal rise in influenza cases.
We have one of the highest pupil-teacher ratios in Europe.
We just stopped building public housing a decade ago, and we were deprecating it for years before.
But every party will campaign next election on cutting income tax and USC
@faduda @stancarey @Tupp_ed not every party. Just the two center right parties that claim not to be the same party. I.e. in many places where they are standing for election you could vote for other parties who actually want to do the right thing. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41226238.html
@stancarey @Tupp_ed same in the UK; the only way to see a doctor is hearing "you are number 30 in the queue" at 8AM sharp