Tag: DAERA
over 1 year ago
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Sam McBride: A letter the DUP won’t admit exists is now a nightmare for civil servants

Hours before Edwin Poots left office two months ago, he left a letter with civil servants which he knew would make th...

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over 1 year ago
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Whistleblower vet: I don’t think I will ever get justice for being forced out of my job

The Stormont vet hounded out of her job for attempting to prevent animal suffering and potential fraud has said she h...

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over 1 year ago
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Two-thirds decrease in noise complaint notices served across Northern Ireland

There has been an almost two-thirds decrease in the number of notices served by councils regarding noise complaints c...

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over 1 year ago
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Confusion as Irish ‘poultry border’ goes up to combat bird flu threat

As England and the Republic this week imposed tough measures to restrict the spread of bird flu, there has been confu...

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over 1 year ago
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Senior vet Julian Henderson no longer in deputy chief role, but department is silent as to why

One of the senior civil servants involved in unlawfully hounding a government vet out of her job has lost his positio...

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over 1 year ago
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Sam McBride: Regulator for UK vets was ‘looking into’ pair – but won’t say if it still is

The statutory regulator for UK vets was six months ago looking into the behaviour of Northern Ireland’s chief vet and...

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over 1 year ago
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Report into top vets savaged by judge may never be published

A taxpayer-funded report into Northern Ireland’s chief vet may never be made public — something even senior civil ser...

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over 1 year ago
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Chief vet still being lauded despite role in driving out whistleblower

Northern Ireland’s chief vet is continuing to be feted despite his role in hounding a colleague from her job after sh...

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over 1 year ago
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Sam McBride: After hounding out a good vet, Daera wonders why it can’t get enough of them

Deep in the bureaucratic belly of Stormont’s scandal-ridden agriculture department, there is quiet panic.

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over 1 year ago
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Business as usual for under-fire chief vet as he is seen briefing NIO minister Conor Burns

Despite months of revelations about the behaviour of Northern Ireland’s chief vet he remains in post — and on Thursda...

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over 1 year ago
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DAERA Permanent Secretary questioned involving sacked whistleblower Bronckaers in review of handl...

The most senior official in Stormont’s agriculture department questioned sacked whistleblower Tamara Bronckaers being...

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over 1 year ago
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Chief vet sanctioned costly appeal against verdict that was highly critical of him

Northern Ireland’s chief vet personally authorised the expenditure of taxpayers’ money in an attempt to overturn a ju...

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over 1 year ago
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Official told DAERA’s Robert Huey and Julian Henderson: You’re a credit to your profession – desp...

A civil servant gushingly told two colleagues they were “a credit to your profession” after the two men — who had for...

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over 1 year ago
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Vet scandal probe still to be finished months after launch

Four months after the head of the Civil Service announced an independent review of the appalling treatment of a whist...

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almost 2 years ago
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NI vet scandal chief Robert Huey was involved in the handling of his own case

Northern Ireland’s chief vet was regularly involved in Civil Service discussions about how to handle the case of a wh...

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almost 2 years ago
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Vet scandal: DAERA did not disclose crucial video evidence of animal suffering to judge

The scandal surrounding a whistleblower vet hounded out of her job deepened tonight as it emerged the Department of A...

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about 2 years ago
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Sam McBride: Short-termism defines Northern Ireland, but a day of reckoning looms

When you open this newspaper a week from today, the votes will be counted, and debate will centre not on who will be ...

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about 2 years ago
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Head of NI Civil Service now sets up review of whistleblower scandal – but no mention of immediat...

The Head of the Civil Service on Friday night moved to set up an independent review of the appalling treatment of a w...

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about 2 years ago
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Tamara Bronckaers: We will look at conduct of our staff if there is a complaint, says vet regulator

The body which has the power to stop vets from practising has said that it will examine the conduct of Northern Irela...

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about 2 years ago
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Vet scandal: Department of Agriculture chiefs refusing to front up as they send junior official o...

Bosses in Stormont’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs have run away from scrutiny over the wh...

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about 2 years ago
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Vet Scandal Revealed: Taxpayers paid extra £250k due to civil service decision to appeal

Stormont is remaining silent about who took the decision to appeal the devastating judgment in favour of whistleblowe...

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about 2 years ago
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Michelle O’Neill declines to endorse the man appointed chief vet while she was DAERA minister

Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill has refused to say that she has confidence in Northern Ireland’s chief vet, Robert Huey ...

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about 2 years ago
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Vet scandal: ‘Sheep were fighting for hay and some pens were overcrowded’

It was after Tamara Bronckaers had attempted to get Stormont’s agriculture department to investigate animal moves bei...

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about 2 years ago
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Whistleblower Tamara Bronckaers exposes top civil servants’ conduct: ‘My life was hell’

For a year, Tamara Bronckaers tried to warn senior Stormont colleagues about animal suffering and abuse of the livest...

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about 2 years ago
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Sam McBride: There is something rotten in the Northern Ireland Civil Service

Imagine refusing the clear instruction of your boss, who specifies that he doesn’t want you to do something you know ...

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about 2 years ago
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Vet scandal: Stormont pays out £1m but still insists it did nothing wrong to whistleblower

The Stormont department that hounded a whistleblower out of her job for exposing animal suffering and potential fraud...

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about 2 years ago
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Whistleblower scandal: head of Civil Service won’t intervene in vet row

The head of the Civil Service has refused to intervene in the scandal over an official who forced another civil serva...

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about 2 years ago
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Stormont’s former spin chief denounces ‘scandalous’ vet case

The man who for 15 years was the Executive’s most senior spin doctor has denounced the “scandalous behaviour” of some...

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about 2 years ago
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SDLP’s Nichola Mallon ‘deeply concerned’ by civil service whistleblower’s treatment

The first Executive minister has broken ranks to criticise the treatment of a civil service whistleblower who was for...

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about 2 years ago
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Civil servant who forced out whistleblower vet rewarded with promotion

A civil servant involved in hounding a whistleblower vet out of her job has been promoted to deputy chief vet — despi...

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about 2 years ago
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NI Civil Service chief apologises to senior whistleblower vet hounded out of job

The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has issued an “unreserved apology” to a civil servant hounded out of h...

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about 2 years ago
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Stormont department apologises and drops its legal challenge over whistleblower

A Stormont department has “unreservedly apologised” and abandoned its attempt to overturn a devastating industrial tr...

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about 2 years ago
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Department refuses to release information after Tamara Bronckaers tribunal case

After being asked five times for a copy of a civil servant’s register of interests, a Stormont department has refused...

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about 2 years ago
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Sam McBride: Pick and mix protocol isn’t just a nightmare for local businesses... democracy suffe...

A month ago, a Northern Irish lorry carrying New Zealand and Australian lamb was stopped at the Irish Sea border in B...

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about 2 years ago
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IFEX: 6,000 people due to attend hospitality event

One of the biggest events to be held in Northern Ireland since the Covid-19 pandemic began takes place in Belfast thi...

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about 2 years ago
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New Civil Service chief silent over whistleblower case

The new head of the Civil Service has declined to say whether it is acceptable for a Stormont department to attempt t...

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about 2 years ago
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Taxpayer funds chief vet’s bid to quash verdict over sacking of whistleblower

A Stormont department is using taxpayers’ money to attempt to overturn a devastating judgment that raised serious con...

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