Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan
This afternoon.
Dail Eireann.
Further to the appointment by Eamon Ryan of Professor Morgan Bazilian a former special advisor to Minister Ryan, and Dr Cara Augustenborg, a former Green Party election candidate, to the Climate Change Advisory Council with no open competition for the posts…
…via RTÉ News
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has insisted in the Dáil that Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan’s appointment of two people he knew to the Climate Change Advisory Council was not an act of “cronyism”.
“I don’t accept that this was an act of cronyism at all,” Simon Coveney said, defending his Cabinet colleague.
Speaking during Questions on Promised Legislation, Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy had suggested that Minister Coveney tell Minister Ryan that “these types of acts of croneyism simply aren’t worth it”.
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty also criticised Mr Ryan for appointing his “two friends” to the council.
Mr Doherty noted there had been a recommendation that an open appointments process be held for the posts.
Minister Coveney should appreciate this, he added, given “the stroke that you tried to pull earlier on in the summer in appointing a former cabinet colleague [Katherine Zappone’s derailed UN appointment] to a makey-up job”.
Coveney: Appointments to climate council not ‘cronyism’ (RTÉ)
I like to see the interview process, especially when Dr. Krazy Von Coalindustry applies…
well if Simon Coveney said it’s not cronyism then thats good enough for me,
case closed and goodnight madame.
If it walks likes a duck, quacks like…ah forget it, we all know its rotten to the core
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