Bill seeks to get Italian public servants to really work

International Herald Tribune ^ | November 18, 2008 | Elisabetta Povoledo

[ritewingwarrior]

Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation, has won unusual bipartisan support for a bill that promotes principles of transparency, standards and meritocracy in the public sector.

Italy's bitterly divided government and opposition don't often see eye to eye, but they have united in declared determination to make the country's deeply entrenched, sclerotic bureaucracy a tad more 21st century.

Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation, has won unusual bipartisan support for a bill that promotes principles of transparency, standards and meritocracy in the public sector. It is, he trumpeted last week, an "epoch-making reform."

The extraordinary bipartisan backing for the bill - which foresees crackdowns on proven idlers, widespread restructuring, and an increased monitoring of output - is a tacit acknowledgement that Italy's bureaucratic machine is at the root of the untold inefficiencies that discourage productivity and act as an added drag on an already sluggish economy.

Brunetta has even gone so far as to claim that a 10 percent increase in public administration efficiency could result in a two-percentage-point rise in gross domestic product.

[ritewingwarrior]

Well i have been working to draft a bill called the Government Accountability Act that basically works along the same line. Im sick of dealing with endless government agencies filled with inept, apathetic people. Kind of sounds good what they are doing.

[ritewingwarrior]

And i know there is already an act of the same name.

[AndrewB]

You go, Bill!!

[ari-freedom]

uh oh

[12Gauge687]

Please have Signor Brunetta contact us when Hell freezes over, which will be the approximate time when all this efficiency takes place in Italy.