Calls for Hogan to publish Sipo advice

Reform Alliance’s Lucinda Creighton has backed calls from the political standards watchdog requesting Envisronment Minister Phil Hogan to publish the legal advice he has received about his standoff with the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo).

Ms Creighton said her former government colleague Phil Hogan was “mitigating against good politics” by insisting that Sipo’s proposed reforms in the area of local party political accounts were outside its legal remit.

“I think that at the very least that taxpayers and members of the public can expect from a political system that has not been transparent in the past… it’s time to clean it up and provide full transparency at all levels,” she said.