Suspended Fás director lined up for Dáil grilling

SUSPENDED Fás executive Greg Craig is expected to be invited to appear before the Dáil public accounts committee (PAC) later this month after claiming he operated outside normal procurement practices with the approval of his superiors.

Mr Craig has criticised the findings of an internal audit report which examined his management of the corporate affairs division within Fás and which sparked the current inquiry by the PAC.

It claimed Mr Craig’s decision to set up a jobs website, Jobs Ireland, which duplicated an existing website already run by Fás, had cost the state employment agency at least €1m.