{"id":276758,"date":"2026-02-02T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276758\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:36:13","slug":"government-td-calls-for-independent-review-of-cea-over-garda-exodus-and-e272k-spend-on-labour-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276758\/","title":{"rendered":"Government TD calls for independent review of CEA over garda exodus and \u20ac272k spend on labour dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The company law watchdog was questioned about an alleged toxic work environment and its capability to investigate high-profile company law cases\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ian Drennan, head of the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Photos: Shane O'Neill\/Coalesce and Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ab69cd03-fe51-4aa4-a660-aedc9968d8a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ian Drennan, head of the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Photos: Shane O&#8217;Neill\/Coalesce and Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) has spent \u20ac272,000 on legal fees to fight a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) case brought by one of its employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Details of the large legal bill were revealed by the company law enforcement agency at the D\u00e1il\u2019s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) last week, as its director Ian Drennan was grilled by TDs about a \u201ccrisis\u201d in the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company law watchdog was questioned about an alleged toxic work environment and its capability to investigate high-profile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,7113,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-276758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-mark-tighe","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}