Originally Posted by
craic
Read the story a bit more carefully on the regular news. A service that has been receiving $50,000 per annum claims it will have to close if it doesn't receive $100,000 per annum. This particular game has been going on for years. Voluntary groups set up to cure alcoholics, assist brain damaged, or pensioners or someone else. They get some funding and, in the fullness of time, decide that they are indipensable. ALAC has, or had in my time, regional advisory committees to assist with the grading of the many claimants on its funds. Locally we have a Citizens Advice Bureau, Grey Power, RSA, and umpteen voluntary groups who assist beneficiaries and others with claims. But they are seldom needed, the public servants who are paid to do this work here are very efficient and helpful. Why shouldn't they be - their careers depend on it and it is not their money?