Gilmore: Board should resign

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore has called for the resignation of the entire board of Fás and criticised the trade union members who sit on the board.

Mr Gilmore said he was “disappointed” that the board didn’t put an end to the lavish expenses regime at the state training agency.

“I think that they have a case to answer, and I think in circumstances where the director general of Fás has now resigned, where another senior executive has been suspended [and] where there has been excessive junketeering going on, I think that the position of that board is untenable,” Mr Gilmore said.