'No accountability' - County manager appointed to State agency months after censure

Wexford county manager, Tom Enright, had suggested one of South East Radio's reporters had a “personal vendetta” against him

Verona Murphy said: "The reality is we have no accountability. If we don’t have it at CEO level, we can’t have it at housing officer level." File photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

A lack of “accountability” in public service job appointments has been sharply criticised after a county manager was appointed to a State agency just five months after being censured by the standards watchdog.

Thursday’s Public Accounts Committee saw an angry exchange between independent TD Verona Murphy and secretary-general of the Department of Housing, Graham Doyle, over the appointment of Wexford county manager, Tom Enright, to the Housing Finance Agency (HFA).