Islands to share services?
Thursday 17th June 2010, 2:58PM BST.
Senator Ben Shenton.
POLITICIANS from Jersey and Guernsey are meeting tomorrow to set up a committee that could save millions in both islands by cutting duplicated services.
Jersey’s Public Accounts Committee are meeting their opposite numbers in Guernsey to set up the body, which already has shared specialist hospital services, waste, competition and airport regulation, payroll and tax collection and benefit payments in its sights.
Jersey’s PAC chairman, Senator Ben Shenton, said that despite years of talk about closer working relationships between the islands, ministers had failed to deliver. He said that the new body would look for savings, and wanted input from the business communities.
Senator Shenton said: ‘There is the possibility to save millions from greater co-operation – it’s whether there is political will to do so. What we are finding is that the political will is greater in Guernsey than it is in Jersey.’
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Great idea, why not expand on it by cutting the unnecessary duplication of processes within the 12 parishes, how much money could that save?
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Reading between the line, I would interpret this article to say that an oversized new incinerator was indeed built on Jersey’s shoreline to accommodate Guernsey’s rubbish.
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Can we have Guernsey’s permanent kart track too please !
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You can’t do that Mulvie, it would pretty much do away with the Constables plus secretaries, honorary police and a raft of road inspectors, drain lid lifters, toilet inspectors, etc, etc.
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Good idea!
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Pip Clement # said, “It would pretty much do away with the Constables plus secretaries, honorary police and a raft of road inspectors, drain lid lifters, toilet inspectors, etc, etc ” Excellent idea mon vie.
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Common sense, but common sense is not that common.
Once we start there would be no end of efficacy saving without the need for GST.
The United States of Old Normandy.
Pip should could lead the change management team.
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Just do away with Guernsey.
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Get rid of our States members and senior civil servants and use Guernseys.
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@9
You’d soon want your own ones back if you had the loan of our shower for a few months!
This pan island co-operation thing has got to be a smart move though.
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I would suggest to Mr Shenton who i do support should spend his time better by firstly getting rid of all the middle management pen pushers who work in the states departments doing nothing but churn out lots of paper trying to prove that their jobs are necessary, once this overpaid lot are sorted out then he should start cutting the top management out doubling the jobs up with Guernsey at far less pay than they get now.
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The suggestion that we should share some services with Guernsey has been discussed for decades.
It has not been going for as long as the casino debate which celebrated its centenary a few years ago but it is a good old chestnut that has consumed thousands of hours of time and filled pages of the JEP.
Will anything happen?
Almost certainly not!
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