C&AG report - Why do we tolerate this awful waste?

THE publication this week by the Comptroller and Auditor General John Buckley into how the state wastes resources did not disappoint.

The usual scandalous mismanagement and serial inefficiencies were brought to our attention. We sat back grumbling and angry, more or less exactly what we will do when the C&AG publishes his next report 12 months from now.

We may have managed outrage for a few moments but, browbeaten and weary of despair, we moved on to something less provocative. Is it any wonder Fianna Fáil, and to a lesser degree the other political parties, can treat us like the fools we so readily seem to be?