the policy makers of ireland

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The policy makers of Ireland

  1. What 3 groups could be considered as the main policy makers in the ROI?

  1. Outline the processes involved in policy making.
  • Diagram-flow chart.
  • Written description.

  1. (1) The makers of much of Irish public policy are considered to be;

  • The members of government (cabinet, ministers of state).
  • The members of the dial and seanad.
  • Some senior civil servants, including temporary advisors and possible a few other public servants.

A. (2) The phrase public policy defined means, a set of solid decisions taken by a political group relating to the selection of goals and the way of achieving them within a particular condition were these should in law be within the power of these actors to achieve. Public policy suggests broad rather than narrow, and general rather than detailed decisions. General courses of action sometimes emerge from many individual and specific decisions that in their total can be seen to fall into patterns which might suitably be called policies. The courts sometimes make decisions, the contents of which lead public authorities to change state action’s, therefore courts make policy. The word policy is also used to describe the general decisions and behaviour of public authorities which have power given to them by the government and the Oireachtas to make rules that have the force of law. Some of these rules can appropriately be called policies.

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The ministers who make up the government are clearly at the centre of the operation. As the group of leaders who won the previous general election, they take on the major role in governing the country. Having an overall responsibility for the wellbeing of the community, they are expected by there supporters, by the members of the Oireachtas, and by the community generally to take the initiative in identifying problems to be tackled and opportunities to be broken down and in preparing solutions and lines of action. It is they who make, or at least approve of, the most ...

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