From Malcolm Ray.
THERE have been many correspondents to your letters pages of the JEP attacking public sector workers on pay and conditions.

However, these people conveniently overlook the enormous cost to the tax payer incurred by the suspensions of the hospital consultant John Day, police chief Graham Power and Assistant Magistrate Ian Christmas.

These persons were given no reasons explaining why they have been suspended, which is appaling.
It is not acceptable for the Chief Minister and the Health Minister to say that we need to move on and that the reports will be acted on.

People must be brought to account.

Was it not Senator Le Sueur, the then Treasury Minister, who failed to fix the exchange rate for the euro which could cost the taxpayer anything between £3 million and £10 million extra for the all singing and dancing gold-plated incinerator? Neither he nor Ian Black, the States Treasurer, would wish to be held accountable.

Guy de Faye, who was removed at the last election, will not be held to account, although he was the Minister of Transport and Technical Services at the time of the signing of the contract.
It will be the same at Health. Mike Pollard, the former chief executive, has now stood down from his post.

Then there is former Deputy Andrew Lewis, who sanctioned the suspension of police chief Graham Power when he was Home Affairs Minister.

One must not forget Lenny Harper, the former deputy police chief, and the farcical part he played in the Haut de la Garene fiasco, knowing he was coming up to retirement.

It is pathetic that all of these people, together with top civil servant Bill Ogley, have passed the buck. If none of these people are accountable then there must be persons who are.

Finally, no wonder it was voted to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers in 2009. This would go some way in making up the money that has been paid out to cover the abject failure of some of the above-mentioned.

Excepted are consultant John Day, who has been cleared, and police chief Graham Power who may well be cleared.

It was certainly a good time to deflect public attention away from these expenses.