Talk:Public service of the Republic of Ireland
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I propose that this article be merged with "Civil service of Ireland". I appreciate that a distinction between "civil service" and "public service" should be made. This, I suggest, could be done clearly in the civil service article. To me it seems pointless to have two separate articles and it makes it less likely that a reader will get the full picture of the civil and public services. Aditionally, the article is really poor. It would be better to improve, I think, the civil service article.
Any support or objections? Redking7 (talk) 16:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Object -- whilst its often easy to blur the two their is a clear distinction between the "civil service" and "public service", for instance but not limited to: terms and conditions of employment, diversity and type of work undertaken, grade and renumeration of staff, types of organisation worked in, political independence, foundation and history. Djegan (talk) 18:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Change name of Article
Given the opposition to the merger I expect it will not go ahead unless any one else has any supporting views. Instead, it will linger on, no one it seems interested enough to improve it.
Given this, I have made another proposal:
I have proposed that this article be moved to "public service of Ireland". This accords with the name of the state which is "Ireland" not "Republic of Ireland" - (See Names of the Irish state). There is, in my view, no room for confusion with the island of Ireland in this case because islands do not have public services. The move is currently being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Irish Wikipedians' notice board. Please support this move. Redking7 (talk) 22:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
