‘Offload non-core services’

Monday 4th January 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

Jersey Chamber of Commerce president Ray Shead

IT is time the States stopped providing services that would be more efficiently delivered differently, says the president of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce.

Ray Shead says that 2010 is an important year for the Island and that work needs to be done to assess where taxpayers’ money can be saved.

He said that the States should focus on the provision of core services such as health, education, policing, customs and immigration.

‘These are the types of activities that we, as the public, pay our taxes for,’ he said.
And he said that a ‘proper debate’ needed to start to allow non-core services to be provided in future either by the private sector, or by publicly-owned businesses that were truly free of political interference.

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Matt

January 4, 2010 at 4:19 pm

I totally agree. This year should be a time to cut back on some areas of the civil service and introduce more thrift. I would also like to see less time wasted in the states on stupid proposals mainly tabled by the left.

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richard

January 4, 2010 at 6:08 pm

If the public want a service then they have to pay, a well run states dept will provide a better service than a private company. Me thinks they want to tap into the public purse!

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Jonty

January 5, 2010 at 11:42 am

#2. richard : ” a well run states dept will provide a better service than a private company”

What a load of rubbish. What matters is the “well run” part of your sentence, not whether the role is carried out in the private or public sector.

Also, arguably, a private company is more likely to provide a better service as there is more incentive, e.g. if it does not provide a good service, at worst it could be sued by the States or at best it wouldn’t be contracted with again.

Non-core services currently provided by the States should be outsourced to the private sector if there would be a smaller cost to the public purse.

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david brown

January 5, 2010 at 4:53 pm

lets see a list of , non core services , and see if anybody else can offer the service.

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J Lamborrari

January 6, 2010 at 12:11 am

Wanna see parking control done properly? Privatize it!

Overseas aid? Certainly not a core service.

Hanging baskets and Christmas decorations in King Street? Not core.

Subsidies to religious groups? Definitely not core.

And I’m sure there’s many many more.

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