Accountability is required

The ‘exiting’ of top civil servants must stop, writes Political Reporter Juno McEnroe

Accountability is required

PARACHUTING senior civil servants damaged by controversies into alternative lucrative jobs is not unprecedented in recent times. Those at the top say their hands are tied as stricter laws for the public sector, as opposed to the private, prevent them from sacking civil servants.

However, rewarding mistakes with plump salaries makes a mockery of this Coalition’s pledge in the programme for government that a ‘democratic revolution’ is under way.

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