Eircode hiring ex-civil servants is ‘scandalous’

A Limerick-based Fine Gael TD has described the hiring of former civil servants as consultants on the Eircode project as “a scandal”, and said he was disgusted they were hired without the jobs being advertised.

Patrick O’Donovan made the comments at yesterday’s hearing of the Public Accounts Committee, where he said the consultants had “won the lotto” when they were awarded the positions outside public procurement guidelines.

Representatives of both the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform also attended the meeting.