C&AG delays release of SIPTU fund report

THE Comptroller and Auditor General will complete his report on the controversial €2.35 million SIPTU training fund within two weeks.

It is more than two months since both the Garda and the C&AG lodged independent investigations into the fund, part of an overall €60m SKILL programme, which was set up eight years ago to “support SIPTU human resources personnel development schemes and the development of union management partnerships of best practice”.

The fund was used to pay for 31 foreign trips undertaken by civil servants, health service staff and trade union representatives, including visits to the US, Australia, Hong Kong and Britain.