A civil servant has been publicly praised for accepting personal responsibility for one of the multiple failures which may have contributed to the cash for ash scandal.
Elaine Dolan, who was head of the internal audit in Arlene Foster’s department during the design of the RHI scheme and the first year and a half of its operation, told Sir Patrick Coghlin’s public inquiry that an auditor working under her had not done enough to query what officials were telling him.
When asked if the work – which was part of a project management review – had been performed to an adequate standard, Ms Dolan said: “The answer to that is no.”
She said that she couldn’t understand why some of the problems weren’t identified in the audit but suspected that the auditor was assured by…
