THE FALLOUT FROM last week’s revelation that a sum of €3.6bn was counted twice by Department of Finance officials is continuing.
An MEP has come out against outgoing Department of Finance head Kevin Cardiff, on whose watch the mistake occurred, holding a position with the European Court of Auditors.
While the Central Statistics Office has insisted that the State was “no better or worse” off as a result of the accounting error, Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy wrote in TheJournal.ie this weekend that he believed that “heads should roll” over the poor communication between the NTMA and Department of Finance which saw the error brought to someone’s attention but not acted upon for almost a year. In the comments section of that article, some readers agreed with Murphy while others thought that it was a human error and that we should put it behind us.
What do you think? Has there been an over-reaction to the accounting blunder?
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