In an email to the ABC, Mr Deegan said he"acted ethically and transparently within the provisions of the departmental guidelines and the public service commission Code of Ethics at all times".
The ombudsman made special criticism of the department's practice of funding restaurant meals between the chief executive and other public officers. The report showed Mr Deegan spent $247.40 on"dinner with Minister Mulligan " at Press* Food & Wine in September 2017."Mr Mullighan now needs to explain why he needed to be meeting his own CEO at restaurants in the Adelaide CBD rather than saving taxpayers' money by meeting his own CEO in his office," Mr Lucas said.
"We believe it is reasonable and right to have a zero-tolerance policy against illicit drugs and alcohol, with an accompanying education and awareness program to support its introduction," Mr Deegan said at the time.The genesis of the ombudsman's
Lol.. But the Danish 'ombudsman' do some good. Always in hindsight though? politics
Really, so croocked