Laid-off TalkTalk employees were voted €2.7m from the EU to help with retraining, education and self-employment supports by the European Parliament.

MILLIONS of euro in EU grants to help unemployed people get back to work are being lost because Fás has failed to update its book- keeping from paper to a modern computer system.

A TEAM of EU experts is travelling to Ireland next week to investigate complaints from former Dell workers about the way the €15 million fund to help them is being used.