EU team set to probe Dell fund complaints

A TEAM of EU experts is travelling to Ireland next week to investigate complaints from former Dell workers about the way the €15 million fund to help them is being used.

The money must be spent by June next year but so far only €3m has been spent retraining or providing job opportunities for the 2,400 workers made redundant.

Many of them are finding it impossible to access the fund and are being either pushed into courses they do not want or are being tied up in red tape, according to workers’ representatives Gerry Hickey and Tony O’Shea.