But he decided to bring in as his deputy someone from his previous office and hired one auditor from the Financial Supervisory Commission.

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Rafael Alpizar, a 72-year-old former auditor at the comptroller's office, disagrees.

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She explained that the bill had been brought forward to reform and modernise the governance of the Wales Audit Office (WAO) and the position of auditor general for Wales, in response to problems that had arisen in the past.

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Mr Murray said the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust was a very different organisation from the one heavily criticised in the reports of the Auditor General, the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and the Wales Audit Office.

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Jim Petro is a politician, a former Attorney General and State Auditor in Ohio, who once dabbled with seeking even higher office (his predecessor, also something of an innovator, Eric Fingerhut, was similar, although Petro is Republican and Fingerhut a Democrat).

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The Auditor General for Wales, Huw Vaughan Thomas, also gave evidence to the committee on the Wales Audit Office report on public participation in waste recycling.

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