What growing demand does Guernsey face?

Can the relevant department provide readers with evidence of this, because to me this does not compute. I don’t see what extra services or expenses that they demand. Of course there will be pensions, but most elderly citizens will have paid into these, and so should enjoy the payment that the scheme was designed for.

May we also have clarification on, ‘the growing demand for public services’. What is this? I don’t know of any demands. Is Mr St Pier referring to the growing demands of what the current civil service wishes to impose on us with yet more bureaucracy and yet more unnecessary civil service jobs that frankly the public at large have neither any need for, or any knowledge of?

Also, ‘a disparity has been found between not only pay, but also hours, additional benefits, and responsibility across public sector roles’ (this is a direct quote from Mr St Pier).

Too right there. The public sector departments engaged in bureaucracy are indeed under-worked, over-paid, have way too many benefits, and are disastrously managed and under-productive. So how can addressing this cost an extra £40m.? If it were properly addressed it could save £40m. couldn’t it? (Or maybe it was a typo?)

I must say I am confused on the financial pressures Guernsey faces, unless of course it’s simply a smoke screen to raise more money to continue funding what has become a bit of a joke; i.e. the civil service pension scheme ?

Surely Guernsey’s only future is to be a low tax jurisdiction?

We are rapidly heading in the wrong direction, taxes are actually very high here.

If Guernsey were the PLC that Mr St Pier likes to refer to it as, then they need to accept that we need a serious review of the business. What if you had to simply manage on what comes in already (a staggering amount for a small island) what cuts would the board make?

Maybe put it to a people’s vote?

I can think of plenty of areas that could have cuts – and so can most frustrated working members of the public.

STEVE SMITH