Minister branded report ‘piecemeal’ – then read it
Saturday 5th September 2009, 2:29PM BST.
COMMERCE and Employment minister Carla McNulty Bauer did not fully read an independent report she later labelled as ‘piecemeal’.
The comment was made in a statement issued by the department on Wednesday afternoon about the 2007 CACI report on Leale’s Yard.
It was attempting to explain the need for its proposed review of the island’s retail sector after the Guernsey Press obtained a copy of the Co-op-commissioned independent study.
When asked to explain the ‘piecemeal’ remark shortly afterwards, Deputy McNulty Bauer (pictured) said she had been given a copy of the CACI report only that day and had yet to read it.
After being invited to do so, Deputy McNulty Bauer contacted the Guernsey Press to clarify that she had in fact previously read the conclusions of the study, but not the report in full.
‘I had not got a copy of the full document so I had not looked at it right down to the detail, but I had seen the conclusions,’ she said.
‘With regards to the piecemeal comment, I think the CACI report is a good report in the context of what it was asked to do but I think ours will be much wider-ranging.’
Deputy McNulty Bauer said the CACI report contained some valuable information.
‘There is nothing that jumps out at me as not being right. I suppose there are assumptions in there one could question, though.’
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Forget Carla’s skim-reading confessions – the real eye-opener was Environment’s Peter Sirett’s justification for NOT even skim-reading the report that everyone has an opinion on. Hands up everyone who thought you elected politicians to formulate policy which is then carried out by civil servants? Peter is a busy man so he reads stuff only when he has to make a decision apparently – devastatingly efficient but perhaps not the sort of person you want sitting next to the escape exit as the plane falls out of the air (“please can you hurry up reading the instructions now and pull that lever!”) We all have sympathy with him but I am just worried about this comment – “If I read it now I would be doing so without the expert analysis of our staff”. So exactly how does Peter arrive at his views on anything? will he dare to read the weasel words of the Co-op’s clever hired guns or will he sleep easy knowing that the Frossard House Easy-To-Read Guide to Responsible Voting will be off the photocopier in due course? Oh, and I just realised that that will itself be delayed since the usual team are on the bench while some Uber-Consultants are recruited from outside the island since they’ll know how to deal with this mess.
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Yes, ichsaz, Peter Sirett has done NOTHING to justify his position.
It’s an important department for many reasons, not least that the public feel that decisions such as this and the Burnie’s Oven Project have been well researched.
Oh no. They don’t even read major project reports. Did they do an Environmental Impact Assessment for the burner?
Do they do anything except grant permission for rich people to ‘develop’ whilst us ordinary folk can’t put a flag up or paint something interesting to advertise their business.
Pathetic.
There’s a few of them that have been shown up as head nodders to whoever pulls their strings. Transparently useless.
It’s a start towards transparency I suppose.
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Haile H Selassie!
What is going on? Guernsey is imploding!
Rubbish governance, corruption in retail, and our finance industry telling hardcore criminals to stay put and keep their business here!!!!
There’re people on the pitch! They think it’s all over! BRING OUT ROGER PERROT!!!
And then laugh at him!!!
Independence? We can’t do anything right!!!
Not even finance!!!
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Is she still there?
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