Civil servants call for role of special advisers to be clarified

Michael O’Farrell, Political Reporter

The AHCPS, which represents senior civil servants and public service managers across all Government departments, will also call for the Government to implement effective rules of corporate governance for departments following the Travers report on illegal nursing home charges.

An emergency motion, to be presented to today's conference by the AHCPS executive, expresses "serious reservations" over several of the findings of the Travers report, which effectively cleared then Health Minister Mícheál Martin while laying much of the blame on civil servants in the Department of Health.