Bobinkerry luckily you only have to deal with them occasionly. As Norby says read the whole thread. The IAA has been aware they were short of staff for at least 5 years but continued to chase the almighty buck instead of sorting out their staffing problems first. The staff have been pointing this out for years and the management did nothing about it. As a pilot you are well aware it can get pretty busy and controllers are sitting in position for way over the recommended (and legal in other countries) time limits. You're obviously happy witht he service now but what happens if you someday are under the control of a controller who has been sitting in too long or on another overtime duty on a rest day and makes a bad call...will you still be happy .....will you still think its about the money????
Of course you would probably be the first person to blame the controller and not the company who allowed this to happen. Should the controllers be forced to sort out the problems that the IAA have let build up? . I firmly believe that many of them just want the IAA to admit that they have f..ked it up big time and find a solution