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October 18, 2005 More corrupt than last year? BackSeatDriver Dick O'Brien taunts [some] of his co-bloggers with Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2005. But, as I noted this time last year [has it really been that long? - Ed] Ireland was rated as 17th least corrupt at 7.5 in 2004. A year later the perception is that Ireland has become slightly more corrupt - now 19th with a rating of 7.4, and as equally corrupt as Belgium, more corrupt than the US or the UK or France, and only slightly less corrupt than Chile. Take a bow, Iceland!.. just beating last year's least corrupt country, Finland. Here's the list of the 30 least corrupt countries on the Index, and the full results [pdf file] - Figures indicate - Rank, Country, 2005 CPI score 1 Iceland 9.7 Update The BBC report on the Corruption Index... and the RTÉ report are both worth noting. As the RTÉ report points out - Ten years ago Ireland was deemed the 11th least corrupt country with a score of 8.57. "just beating last year's least corrupt country, Finland" It's only a coincidence that I moved here a year ago. I swear. Posted by: maca at October 18, 2005 04:19 PM Posted by: peteb at October 18, 2005 04:25 PM This is only a perception index remember. The people down here may well consider our politicians to be corrupt, but most of the evidence related to this comes out in the various tribunals into planning-corruption and payments to politicians and as such nearly all the allegations relate to the Haughey era (before 1992). In that context, I don't think it is fair to label present-day politicians/Government as being in the same league as them. Posted by: Brian Boru at October 19, 2005 04:02 PM BB, Remember who handled those checks without looking at them--who was minister of finance during a fair size of the Haughey era Posted by: martin at October 19, 2005 05:03 PM |
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