AFTER months of waiting, SIPTU has finally received access to an accountancy report on the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

SIPTU is to pay the €70,000 cost of an expert report on the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

SIPTU wants to publish a report within the next three weeks on the controversial SIPTU National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund into which the state and private sources placed almost €4.5 million between 2001-2010, but which the union has repeatedly insisted it knew nothing about.

Almost 30,000 health workers have voted for a work-to-rule and possible strike action over a recruitment freeze, it was revealed today.