Memo a ‘resignation issue’

THE debacle over the “missing memo” in the Department of Transport would lead to ministerial resignation in most other countries, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore claimed yesterday.

Responding to the publication of an internal report explaining the communication failures between civil servants and the minister for transport, Mr Gilmore said the whole affair would be greeted with considerable scepticism by the public at large.

He said it was clear the government apparatus was aware of the plan but nobody chose to shout ‘stop.’