If these people (deliberately) fail to curtail and address incompetence, at some point, incompetence becomes corruption.

Re; “the books”, nobody ever went to jail for keeping lousy records, the easiest way of all to hide theft.

There is no reason to believe that the oversight that is supposed to protect taxpayers from being ripped off, is any better in any other agency of government.

There is a bunch of pigs feeding at the trough, and nobody looking after our interests.

It will continue for as long as public servants can answer legitimate questions about the public interests by saying; “no comment”