Wanton waste of Siptu fund but guilty will not pay

Key officials will not be held to account over an unmonitored Siptu fund, writes Conor Ryan

WHEN “Comptroller and Auditor General” is on the nameplate you know the office likely errs on the side of caution when it comes to public comments.

So it is something when that office suggests the State’s accounting officers directed unspent resources into an unmonitored so-called slush fund in order to preserve next year’s budget.