Regeneration chief: It wasn’t right to give daughter job

THE chief executive of the Limerick Regeneration Agency, Brendan Kenny, yesterday admitted that giving his daughter a €35,000-a-year receptionist’s job without advertising the post was “probably not the right thing to do”.

Nine of the 14 staff recruited by the two regeneration agencies had been seconded from public and local authorities.

But it also emerged that the son of a member of one of the regeneration agencies boards was also recruited for a job which was not advertised.