That's the way to cut the waste take an extra week's holiday

[BrendanG]

That’s the way to cut the waste: take an extra week’s holiday - at full pay
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MARIE O’HALLORAN

DÁIL SKETCH: It’s about reform, we’re told; greater productivity and more efficiency.

Trimming the fat, cutting the waste. Getting more for less. Making the tough decisions. So how does the Government demonstrate this? It makes a really tough choice and decides – more time off for the Dáil.

And it certainly won’t be unpaid leave. Brass neckery and cute hoorism haven’t gone away, you know.

The official Oireachtas diary, established before the summer, states that the Dáil will return on Wednesday, January 13th, after the Christmas recess.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny had heard a rumour, however, that the date was being changed to January 19th, almost a week later, and he asked the Taoiseach what was the story.>>>>

[Nate]

The Taoiseach could not name the date.

“We intend to come back on a date that would be prior to dates we’ve come back in recent times in the last 10 or 15 years.”

But then he added “the third week of September” before correcting himself and saying “the third week of January”.

Nate

[sharper]

If they’d taken a holiday from 1998-2008 we would have been better off.