Our View: We need fewer, more productive civil servants not more of them

A bill to unfreeze 977 positions in the civil service this year was discussed at the House finance committee on Monday.

Several thousand positions had been frozen during the economic crisis of 2013 and each time government wanted some to be unfrozen it had to seek approval of the legislature. The law will end this practice and theoretically speed up the process of hiring civil servants.

Many of these positions