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Article: The swamp of quangos is at last being cleared. Bad times can be good; Maurice Manning: President of the Human Rights Commission Billy Hawkes: The Data Protection Commissioner Angela Kerins: Chairman of the Equality Authority.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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Byline: RICHARD WAGHORNE
IF THERE is one thing recession might be good for, it is our politics. The glib complacency of recent years is being steadily leached out of the political class, even if that means a lot of blanched faces around Leinster House in the short term.
After shock, a little sobriety is settling into Government Buildings. That sobriety is not, admittedly, evident on the spending front. Numerically, the restraint announced so far does not add up to much. We are still on course for really quite alarming levels of debt and the savings announced to date are a bit like cancelling your second holiday when your home is in danger of being ...