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NI Water: Mr Priestly to return to work, but the issue rumbles on?

Mick Fealty on June 15, 2011, 1:18 pm

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So Mr Priestly, the former Permanent Secretary is to return to work, albeit as a deputy Permanent Secretary. His salary drops from £106,000 down to £92,000. It is not certain where he will be deployed. He was suspended for providing the text of a letter which was subsequently used by to attack the workings of the Public Accounts Committee by Peter Dixon (also a non exec of the DRD appointed Harbour Commissioners at the time) whose work as a member of an Independent …

NI Water: Murphy’s department “undermined confidence in the integrity of the public sector”

Mick Fealty on March 5, 2011, 7:47 am

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Just clicking through the journalism associated with Super Thursday’s report release day. That was the day the PAC’s report came out, and the regulator’s report. Two remain outstanding: the Executive’s conflicted interest report; and Sir Jon Shortidge’s report into the conduct of Mr Murphy’s suspended Permanent Secretary. Of these the PAC’s is the more substantial, but guessing from this BBC report, few professional journalists seem to have actually read it. Interestingly the meaty stuff, which examines the serious misconduct of Permanent …