Backbencher Deputy Sam Mézec lodged an urgent question on Friday after the JEP revealed that Economic Development chief executive Mike King and Locate Jersey’s head of inward investment Wayne Gallichan had booked to play golf upon arrival at an African mining conference – despite initially claiming they had booked the fully flexible return business class flights so they were fresh to start work immediately.
Deputy Mézec said he had not spoken to anybody who was not ‘absolutely furious’ about the situation and during the States sitting he is due to ask: ‘What disciplinary action, if any, will the Chief Minister be taking against the two civil servants who travelled to South Africa on business class flights costing almost £13,000 on the basis that they were to begin working immediately upon arrival, given that they have since admitted that they actually played golf when they arrived.’
The Deputy said it was insulting to have two civil servants using taxpayers’ money in this way at a time when the population were being told that savings need to be made.
