b4mbi Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago 2 hours ago, cissolt said: The biosphere 2024 award winners have been announced. https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/biosphere-awards-2024-celebrate-sustainability-champions/#:~:text=A special mention was given,in the world of agriculture. Earthscope, who are paid £1500 a month by DEFA, win a DEFA award. Perhaps the winner just shares a surname with a member of parliament so no need to declare an interest. Perhaps you're suggesting Sarah Mercer = daughter of Green party member Rob Mercer MLC? A wild coincidence that Rob is director and shareholder of Craftworks in Castletown where some times Sarah helps out, from her profile on the Earthscope website. This is why FOI is a pointless, administrative, bureaucratic job creation scheme - creates no real value at all. I'd scrap it. Public/Civil servants are too afraid to make decisions because of FOI, but as proven above, FOI requests are just manipulated or judged "commercially sensitive" so as to release as little useful information as possible. Waste of time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 15 hours ago, HiVibes said: Government taxation is what pays for your carer Neil yer think Cnut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auntie Depressant Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago 3 hours ago, b4mbi said: Public/Civil servants are too afraid to make decisions because of FOI, but as proven above, FOI requests are just manipulated or judged "commercially sensitive" so as to release as little useful information as possible. Waste of time. Peter Karran said that was exactly how things would turn out if the FOI procedure was approved. He also said that civil servants would send more time on collating in formation than their own jobs resulting in more staff having to be employed. ‘We shall rue the day’ I believe was another of his comments. I wasn’t his greatest fan, but I have to agree that he was completely right in his predictions for FOI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago 2 hours ago, Auntie Depressant said: Peter Karran said that was exactly how things would turn out if the FOI procedure was approved. He also said that civil servants would send more time on collating in formation than their own jobs resulting in more staff having to be employed. ‘We shall rue the day’ I believe was another of his comments. I wasn’t his greatest fan, but I have to agree that he was completely right in his predictions for FOI. No he wasn't. None of those things are true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoTail Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago Peter Karran had great problems being articulate but he was nearly always right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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