Re: Wierd logic
I worked for a consultancy that made rather interesting amounts of money out of this lack of skills, and one of the strategies was to extract even more skilled people from government, thus exacerbating the problem and making good money in the process. No, let me rephrase that, it made obscene amounts of money and probably still does, because failure doesn't matter if you're the only source of knowledge.
If government would pay industry level salaries, it could get industry level quality knowledge which would more than offset the costs of those salaries and the problem would disappear rather swiftly. Of course, that will never happen because the advice governments will get on this .. is from consultancies.