Mary Lou McDonald has slammed the two staffers that gave work references to an ex-colleague who was being investigated for child sex offences.
Mary Lou McDonald says she is 'furious' over the Sinn Féin references scandal and has ordered an overhaul of governance structures.The Sinn Féin staff members that provided work references for an ex-colleague who was being investigated for child sex offences acted “unilaterally, irresponsibly and despicably”, Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Sinn Féin has said it became aware of the work references two days after his guilty plea, with the two men who gave them resigning with immediate effect. “I have to be honest with you, for the life of me, I cannot explain to you or account to you how anybody - any rational, sane, decent person - could have considered giving him any form of reference for anything,” she said.
“But I have to reiterate, in the first instance, the two individuals who wrote these references on their own volition with no authority and no clearance, it was for them at every stage to come forward and make us aware that they had done this.”
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