A culture of managerial impunity
Sir, – Justine McCarthy writes: “Whoever thought €336,000 was money well spent on a bike shed must be held accountable. Otherwise the joke is on us” is the formal obligation to submit to a mechanism designed to achieve external scrutiny in explaining and justifying past conduct and actions, with the possibility of facing consequences”.
What Ireland does really badly is the last word in this definition. There are rarely consequences, beyond perhaps a “development programme”, a sideways move into another job or, better still, promotion. is endemic in the public service, in the health service, policing, environmental damage, the mistreatment of horses and other domains.
The €336,000 spent on the bike shed is peanuts compared to the millions of euro squandered by the Office of Public Works in plain sight over the past decade, which make the political grandstanding about this latest howler entirely unconvincing. Ultimately our politicians are responsible for this immaturity of the institutions of State.
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