Fás damaged, warns former director

A FORMER director of Fás, now director general of IBEC, has claimed the state training agency’s “brand has been damaged” by the recent overspending debacle and admitted there had been failures in the organisation.

However, Danny McCoy warned against a knee-jerk reaction against Fás and said it needed to be reconstructed so as to be made more responsive.

Mr McCoy resigned as a director of Fás when he took up his elevated position with IBEC in June.