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Zapp One in the Eye for good governance. by
By Conor Lenihan.
The appointment of Katherine Zappone as an Irish diplomatic envoy has already let loose a lot of free speech – not all of it complimentary.
The question is: at a very challenging time for the state do we need another diplomat based in New York?
Ireland already has a very expensive office in downtown Manhattan and a Consul General to the UN.
In my time in the department of Foreign Affairs there was no great clamour to spend more money at the UN.
It is the ‘insider dealing’ aspect of it that sticks in people’s craws. But even worse than cronyism is the wilful waste of public money, even on a small scale.