The annual report from the Comptroller and Auditor General of Ireland has highlighted a number of areas of financial mismanagement in the government, resulting in a waste of taxpayer's money. Among the issues raised were:
A genealogy project that was supposed to result in most church records of births, marriages and deaths being entered on a computer data base by next year is running behind schedule. The C&AG reports that it will be a further 20 to 25 years before it is complete.
Details on this and other financially mismanaged projects may be found at http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=9&iArticleID=48231
Dick,
For those with Irish interests, it's worth looking at the full C&AG report at http://www.audgen.gov.ie/documents/annualreports/2004/Vol1Eng.pdf
The report has a whole chapter devoted to the state of affairs in the digitisation or Irish civil and church records - the only place I've seen such detailed info in the last few years.
And alongside the depressing news you reported, there do seem to be one or two more positive things.
peter
Posted by: Peter Christian | October 10, 2005 at 08:35 AM