Watchdog critical as FÁS fails to supply documents

THE Dáil Public Accounts Committee has criticised FÁS over its failure to provide information as part of an investigation into poor financial management in the State training and employment agency.

Committee chairman Bernard Allen claimed it was unacceptable that FÁS director general Rody Molloy had only replied last Monday to a request that was made in early October.

The Fine Gael TD suspended the committee’s weekly meeting because of the failure of FÁS to provide most of the requested documentation. The late arrival of information had placed it in “an impossible situation”.