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Tut, tut – what has Ivor Callely done now? According to this morning’s Irish Independent, everyone’s favourite disgraced senator failed to declare seven of his properties to Oireachtas authorities. Callely could now be facing a possible investigation by the Seanad’s Committee on Member’s Interests and if guilty, disciplinary action.
According to the Independent’s sources, the senator has returned to Dublin from his west Cork home to take legal advice before responding to the numerous claims regarding his conduct. The Independent has found that Mr Callely registered just two properties on the last three annual registers, though publicly available records show he had a stake in at least seven properties during this time.
The Irish Times clearly is exhausted with Callely stories, and runs with today’s headline ‘Future civil servants may be second rate, warns pay chief’, after the Chairman of the Higher Public Servants Remuneration Committee stated that future generations of top civil servants may be ‘second division’ material.
Chairman Tony O’Brien said that despite Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan’s plan to open up top public service jobs to private-sector applicants, the private sector will instead “attract the cream in the futureâ€.
“I’d worry about the future. They’ll be second division, and that will be a challenge for the Government.
