Programmes for Government promise a lot but, more often than not, become a wishlist rather than a checklist guarantee once seats are taken at the cabinet table.  One thing the 2011 version did commit to paper was a promise to make State spending more transparent. Access to such data is now taken for granted but, at the time, a Google search would not result in links to purchase-order data now at the public’s fingertips.  Along with this newfound transparency has come newsroom scrutiny for the next big public spending story. And no spreadsheets have made such a regular splash in…

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