The Requirements in Public Workplace Fee (Sipo) is to carry a listening to into allegations in opposition to the chief govt of Wexford County Council later this week.
Sipo mentioned it was investigating allegations that Tom Enright breached the Native Authorities Act 2001 and the Code of Conduct for Workers.
A listening to into the alleged contraventions, which Sipo offered no particulars in regards to the nature or origin of, is to happen on Friday.
Sipo’s process is for a preliminary inquiry to be held into any grievance or allegations obtained. That is adopted by a willpower on whether or not a public listening to ought to happen.
Mr Enright, an engineer by career, has been chief govt of the council for seven years. He’s additionally a board member of the Native Authorities Administration Affiliation.
A spokesman for Wexford County Council mentioned Mr Enright welcomes the chance to “robustly defend” the allegation that he breached the Code of Conduct for Native Authorities Workers.
“Mr Enright has been suggested that as this course of is ongoing it might be inappropriate for him to remark additional at this stage,” the spokesman mentioned. “He intends issuing a full and detailed assertion in respect of this matter as soon as the method has been accomplished.”
Sipo is chaired by former Excessive Court docket decide Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan and its different members are Comptroller & Auditor Normal Séamus McCarthy; Ombudsman Peter Tyndall; Clerk of Dáil Éireann Peter Finnegan; Clerk of Seanad Éireann Martin Grovers; and former senator Geraldine Feeney.