The Department of Education has been told to improve accountability and transparency in the management of the €360m National Training Fund.

THE Dáil’s spending watchdog has upped the ante in its probe of Fás, demanding further explanations on what knowledge its board had about wasteful spending.

Several top FÁS officials will appear before the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today despite the resignation of embattled boss Rody Molloy.

SIPTU has served two weeks’ strike notice of industrial action on FÁS over the Government’s plans to decentralise the employment agency to Birr, Co Offaly.