Agency unlikely to recoup €120,000 for falsified computer training results

THE state’s jobs agency, Fás, has admitted it is unlikely to recoup taxpayers’ money from a company which falsified the results of a computer training course.

TDs were told yesterday that questions were raised about a number of computer courses run by a company called Ashfield as early as February 2009 and which were paid for by Fás.

Fás director general Paul O’Toole told the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that despite the fact the company had “falsified results” with one of its courses it had since gone into liquidation.