The Public Accounts Committee today saw an showdown between independent TD Verona Murphy and secretary-general of the Department of Housing, Graham Doyle, over the appointment of Wexford county manager, Tom Enright, to the Housing Finance Agency.
According to a report in the Irish Examiner, Mr. Enright’s cushy new position comes just just 5 months after he was slated by the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) for suggesting that South East Radio had a “personal vendetta” against him and he had threatened to withdraw council advertising from the station.
Social media users aren’t happy with appointment with one claiming “integrity and accountability not needed”.
The SIPO had said that Mr. Enright had failed to “maintain proper standards of integrity, conduct and concern for the public interest” in his correspondence with South East Radio, saying that he had behaved “recklessly” and had not acted in good faith.”
Ms Murphy, an Independent TD for Wexford said South East Radio had “written to the Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien after they received further correspondence in the wake of the SIPO report about a possible termination of commercial activities on the part of Wexford County Council. The same minister has just appointed him to the HFA,”
Ms Murphy went on to say “The reality is we have no accountability. If we don’t have it at CEO level, we can’t have it at housing officer level.
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