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OUTGOING SECRETARY-General of the Department of Finance Kevin Cardiff could still land a post at the European Court of Auditors despite failing in his bid to be nominated to the organisation this evening.
Cardiff lost the vote at the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control by just one vote.
However, MEP Pronsias De Rossa said that the committee’s rapporteur is preparing a report recommending Cardiff’s appointment, despite the vote.
De Rossa said in a statement this evening:
I have spoken to the Rapporteur who is preparing the report for Parliament and she has informed me that she will be recommending acceptance of his nomination and that she regards the vote as not an accurate reflection of the hearing itself.
Her report will now go forward to the parliamentary groups for further debate on Cardiff’s appointment.
No Irish MEPs are on the committee involved today, but as non-members are permitted to pose questions to candidates, six of the 12 Irish MEPs participated in the hearing.
Labour MEP Nessa Childers, who has been criticised with the Labour Party for expressing her reservations over his appointment, told TheJournal.ie this evening that although this is “not a good situation” for Cardiff or for Ireland, it is good for European democracy, as it’s about the role of MEPs. She said the situation shows that MEPs have a separate mandate to members of the Irish government.
The issue of Cardiff’s appointment will go to the Socialist and EPP groups for their consideration and debate, and will be subject to a final vote by the whole European Parliament next month during its plenary session in Strasbourg.
Although Childers suggested that traditionally MEPs respect the vote of the committees, De Rossa said that the parliament “often reverses committee decisions which don’t reflect the broad consensus of the parliament”.
In his statement this evening, De Rossa said he would “do everything he can to ensure that that parliament supports [Cardiff]“.
Tomorrow marks the closing date of applications for Cardiff’s position as Secretary-General of the Department of Finance.
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crazy story , you would have to feel sorry for his family
interesting story. although it’s missing the link of how they discovered his past when he died. fingerprinting during autopsy?
then they would have had him years ago when he died. anyway I don’t think they take prints from dead body when they have and I.D anyway. several ways. scouting areas he was last seen maybe someone pointed in right direction. maybe he went back to childhood home. or maybe tv appeal with pictures. it nabbed whitey bulger
I hope you’re not a detective James.
Don’t call me Shirley!
Surely you can’t be serious?
So I guess they were wrong when they said at his trial ” no matter how much punishment he would receive, he could never change his character so as to be safe to be turned loose in public.”
How do you know they were wrong?
Because he seems to have gone on to live a fruitful life after.
little jim, the investigation would have uncovered something.
How did they finally twig who he was, what triggered the investigation????
they never stop looking for you in the US until they are positive you are dead. they were still looking into the guy who escaped alcatraz till recently. also whitey bulger. one would have given up on that but there you go they got him
Not bad for a man who would never integrate into society.
good movie to be made from it
Proud?Flip all use discovering it now
How did his second wife die?
His massive heart attack was his victims real justice in the end
not really .thats a good way to go .
We can all go to sleep knowing that we are safe. The American government don’t even know what’s living among them.
He died at the age of 67,and had been found guilty of a crime committed over 57 years previous. That would make him around 9 at the time of the crime…. Hmmmm
plus the 11 years since his death makes him 20 at the time of the murder
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