Sir, – Further proof, if any was needed, that Fine Gael and Labour have no intention of stopping the country sliding even further back into the practices of the last government is the revelation that, in the midst of a scandal about cronyism at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan didn't even blush at reappointing Michael Soden and Des Geraghty as members to the Central Bank Commission quango ("Soden and Geraghty reappointed to Central Bank Commission for five-year terms", October 6th).
Is it not remarkable that the Minister for Finance doesn’t seem to have thought for a moment that it was time to get fresh faces around the Central Bank Commission table?
Did no one in the department think it would be worthwhile to advertise the positions to see who might apply?
It’s long past the point where a light was shone on the day to day management of the Department of Finance and the areas under its remit. – Yours, etc,
DESMOND FitzGERALD,
Canary Wharf,
London.