Replying To Commodore:  "Fine Gael are not Centre right, they are center left like their identical twin Fianna Fail, there are no clear distinctions between the two anymore, hasn't been for years. Yet members of the public are fooled into thinking these two are distinct political options, despite neither being able to openly state those distinctions anymore. They have collectively mismanaged the Country for long-enough, running up massive debts during the most prosperous years of the Irish state.

PUBLIC SECTOR SUMMARY
Of 5.5 million ROI population, ~2.5 million are in employment, ~1.9 million in full-time employment.
-- The Public Sector/Civil Service employs ~410k people.
-- If we include Commercial Semi-public entities (ESB, Uisce Eireann, DAA, RTE, Coilte etc), its ~500k people employed.
-- Almost 25% of employed people in ROI work for the state.

Why is that a problem?

-- Efficiency from the Public Sector is vital to any successful Country, as the private sector is generally bringing in the bulk of the money into the State, while public sector is funded by the taxpayers for share services.

-- We are seeing time and time again that millions of taxpayers money is getting wasted every year by a public sector that has no comprehension of bringing projects in on budget, most of them spent their careers working in this environment of automatic pay scales, not performance related, so no accountability. Think Children's Hospital, Iarnrod Eireann IT system, Bicycle sheds and Data Centers etc.

-- Essential Front line services tend to be underpaid, understaffed and overworked, the general public are deeply frustrated with A&E and hospital waiting times, overcrowding etc. Yet, we have overstaffed, overpaid admins across the board, these inefficiencies are protected by Unions.

-- Public Sector workers are considered to have 'Jobs for life' by banks when it comes to Mortgage applications, there are even Public Sector only Mortgage groups, who provide them with favorable borrowing terms. This in turn keeps the housing market inflated."

Replying To Lúla571210:  "Winner: Spain
Top Scorer: nico Williams.
Dark Horse: Ecuador
Player of the Tournament: Van dijk"