For this we expend millions?
Background, without cost/benefit analysis from the 'Mandarin' and the 'Capital Brief'.
For generations now, the 'public service' has been refining and perfecting the dark arts essential to their survival and prosperity. In one way, a modicum of sympathy could be felt, they are, after all dealing with politicians. Enough said.
"To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem."
Therein lays 'the problem' - Take questions asked at Estimates, consider the 'motive' underpinning the question and, more importantly, the sum total of 'changes' brought about from the answers. Slim pickings once the sound and fury ends. Count up, on one hand, 'changes' made to the aviation industry from direct questions asked; paltry don't quite cover it.
Never sure whether to laugh, cry or howl at the moon at the end of any 'Question' session. The serious shortcomings within the aviation governance sector are as clearly drafted as the solutions; yet round and round they tumble. Politicians ask - Officials duck; more time and money wasted - more regulation - less productivity the net result. But no matter; there is now an official manual on 'how to answer'. Brilliant, stellar and a real gift to the long suffering.
Sir Humphrey: "Unfortunately, although the answer was indeed clear, simple, and straightforward, there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the facts, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear."
Toot - toot..
Background, without cost/benefit analysis from the 'Mandarin' and the 'Capital Brief'.
For generations now, the 'public service' has been refining and perfecting the dark arts essential to their survival and prosperity. In one way, a modicum of sympathy could be felt, they are, after all dealing with politicians. Enough said.
"To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem."
Therein lays 'the problem' - Take questions asked at Estimates, consider the 'motive' underpinning the question and, more importantly, the sum total of 'changes' brought about from the answers. Slim pickings once the sound and fury ends. Count up, on one hand, 'changes' made to the aviation industry from direct questions asked; paltry don't quite cover it.
Never sure whether to laugh, cry or howl at the moon at the end of any 'Question' session. The serious shortcomings within the aviation governance sector are as clearly drafted as the solutions; yet round and round they tumble. Politicians ask - Officials duck; more time and money wasted - more regulation - less productivity the net result. But no matter; there is now an official manual on 'how to answer'. Brilliant, stellar and a real gift to the long suffering.
Sir Humphrey: "Unfortunately, although the answer was indeed clear, simple, and straightforward, there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the facts, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear."
Toot - toot..