LAUSR

The Irish civil service performs well in many international comparative statistical indicators. Ireland scores above average in terms of the quality of public administration and on civil service effectiveness, and leads the way with regard to open-data maturity. Furthermore, 62 per cent of the population tend to trust the public administration. On the other hand, Ireland continues to be the most centralised state in the OECD, with over 90 per cent of expenditure undertaken by central government. And while numbers employed in the civil service continue to rise, public service employment represents a much lower percentage of the overall labour force (at 15 per cent in 2015) than in many other OECD countries (Boyle, 2019).