What passes for accountability in Official Ireland
Sir, – Further to “OPW to review ‘fatally flawed’ systems for signing off on spending in wake of Leinster House bike shed” (Jack Horgan-Jones,The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan gives a forceful performance as an alcoholic in white-knuckle recoveryI’ll never forget the day I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. I’ll never forget that feeling of utter hopelessness
This is all in the context of the €336,000 bike shed. The Ceann Comhairle says that the OPW “could say with hand on heart that they had followed protocol and procedures, and they had, but the problem was with the protocol and procedures”.Veteran observers will be aware that this is what passes for accountability in that other world.
Let’s introduce a touch of reality here. Principal officers are on a pay scale in the range of €100,000 to €135,000. They are clearly people of some standing and substance. Of course it would be good to have a second line of approval. But I don’t accept that the current “fatally-flawed” system has no value-for-money evaluation.
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