Council official fired after inquiry

A LOCAL authority official has been sacked following a three-year investigation into alleged financial irregularities.

The senior official with Waterford County Council had his employment terminated after a local government auditor discovered the local authority was missing €53,000 in development contributions.

In September 2004, local government auditor Patrick J Healy discovered “two significant errors amounting to €53,000 in the calculation of Part V planning contributions” in the council’s accounts for the previous year. The money related to two projects.