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Tue 03 Mar 2009Government 'has never valued transparency'
JOURNALIST AND broadcaster Susan O’Keefe has claimed the Government’s disregard for transparency or honesty consistently sent the wrong signals to the State’s businesses and played a role in the current economic crisis.
Speaking at the publication of the Transparency International report into the risk of corruption and abuse of power in government, politics, business, civil society and the media yesterday, O’Keefe said a culture which frowned on whistleblowers existed in the Republic.
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