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single request for every single post, additional post, receives the utmost careful scrutiny and vetting. Just remember one of C. Northcote Parkinson's famous laws that 'civil servants
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create work foreach other!
Sir this reminds me of the proceedings of this Council of the 14th October 1987, when I was the lone dissenting voice speaking and voting against the Waste Disposal (Amendment) Bill 1987, and had the nerve to request you, Sir, to split the question when the Bill and two other Bills were lumped together and put to a vote on the third reading. Inter alia during the second
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of the Bill I spoke of the 125 additional posts required for the implementation of the Animal Waste Control Policy, and I said to the effect that had an alternative policy been adopted, pollution problems could be tackled with a very small establishment indeed. Now this, Sir, underscores my second point on the expenditure side of the balancing art, or the balancing act. If I am not too unkind or destructively critical, very often misguided or muddled or convoluted policies are at the root of unbridled growth in public expenditure. The Animal Waste Control policy is a very good
case in point. At the same debate I estim-
policy been a total ban on
ated that had the livestock keeping
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even the ex-gratia compen-
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sation boosted by 100 the total expenditure would be in the region of $573 million only, instead of an estimated total expenditure of $609 million under the policy adopted. New the $573 million could be lowered if we decided
per canc to, if we decided anya less than 100 booster for ex gratia compensation,
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