Lee Reynolds: Devolution has somehow made Northern Irish bureaucracy less accountable than ever

Lee Reynolds: Devolution has somehow made Northern Irish bureaucracy less accountable than ever

Lee Reynolds is a former Special Adviser to Arlene Foster, then First Minister of Northern Ireland, and was previously Director of Policy for the Democratic Unionist Party. If a publicly listed company with a turnover of over £1bn pounds had just announced their auditors had withdrawn from engagement because of issues with accounting record and questions over asset values, the result would have been turmoil. The chief executive and board would b…