Northern Ireland Conservatives' chairman, Irwin Armstrong, has criticised Alex Attwood's response to proposals which would allow Northern Ireland motorists to tax their vehicles online.
“The Environment Minister has made it abundantly clear that his priority is not good services for the motorist in Northern Ireland”, Irwin said. “In fact he has effectively stated that he will stand in the way of better services and value for money, if that progress is likely to affect the Driver and Vehicle Agency.”
“What an absurd, Sovietised way of looking at government! By the minister's logic, it is the Executive's duty to provide services badly, inefficiently and ineffectively in order to create more work for the agencies concerned,never mind the inconvenience to the public.”
“This type of thinking is rife within the Executive departments at Stormont and it must change. The priority should always be to provide good services, which do what they're supposed to do and offer value for money and convenience to taxpayers.”
“No wonder we have such a bloated, inefficient public sector in Northern Ireland and no wonder it is crowding out the initiative and enterprise which can grow our economy, when the perverse reasoning of ministers like Alex Attwood is steering our Executive's decisions. The ministers will have to understand that it is not their main function to create extra work for the public sector, but to provide an infrastructure that will enable the private sector to grow."
“The Environment Minister has made it abundantly clear that his priority is not good services for the motorist in Northern Ireland”, Irwin said. “In fact he has effectively stated that he will stand in the way of better services and value for money, if that progress is likely to affect the Driver and Vehicle Agency.”
“What an absurd, Sovietised way of looking at government! By the minister's logic, it is the Executive's duty to provide services badly, inefficiently and ineffectively in order to create more work for the agencies concerned,never mind the inconvenience to the public.”
“This type of thinking is rife within the Executive departments at Stormont and it must change. The priority should always be to provide good services, which do what they're supposed to do and offer value for money and convenience to taxpayers.”
“No wonder we have such a bloated, inefficient public sector in Northern Ireland and no wonder it is crowding out the initiative and enterprise which can grow our economy, when the perverse reasoning of ministers like Alex Attwood is steering our Executive's decisions. The ministers will have to understand that it is not their main function to create extra work for the public sector, but to provide an infrastructure that will enable the private sector to grow."