On Thursday last, Brian Cowen TD, Minister for Finance addressed the Dublin Chambers of Commerce Annual Dinner in a speech titled Achieving Value for Money in Public Expenditure. in which he announced several commonsense proposals on public spending.

It says a lot about Irish public governance, the competence of individual Ministers and the senior bureaucrats, that everyone in a position to make what would have been commonsense and basic business decisions, did not do so until several hundred millions of euros disappeared down an Information Technology sink-hole and billions were underestimated on roadbuilding projects.

The penny belatedly drops for Computer Illiterate Ministers, Senior Bureaucrats and Advisers

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