Cabinet ‘failing to act’ on Fás report

THE head of the Dáil public accounts committee has claimed a series of recommendations from an interim report into the Fás expenses scandal are at risk of being “ignored” and “left on the shelf”.

Speaking after the full extent of Fás director Gregory Craig’s taxpayer-funded personal expense claims — which totalled €400,000 in flights, dinners and hotel rooms between 2001 and 2008 — were revealed through the Freedom of Information Act, committee chair Bernard Allen said the cabinet was failing to act on the group’s February report into inappropriate spending at the state training body.

Due to the concerns raised last autumn over the massive expenses of former Fás chief Rody Molloy and other senior training body members, the committee has been charged with examining the specific system-wide flaws which allowed the taxpayer-funded splurges.