Gardaí have been sent details of inconsistencies around whether proper tendering took place for work on a Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (ETB) property by a company with family links to the board’s former chief executive.

Kildare VEC was chastised after it bought more than €890,000 worth of computers and support services from a former employee.

THE heads of the country’s Vocational Education Committees (VECs) have rejected the need to cut their numbers as proposed by the Government.