No probe after Fás paid €1.5m for €750k site
An official confirmed that no examination has taken place since the state spending watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General, criticised the waste back in September.
The department was accused of doing nothing and allowing reports to gather dust when someone should have been held to account for the waste of taxpayers’ money.
Asked what had been done about the waste of money on the site in Birr which cost €1.5 million of taxpayers’ money, Dermot Keane from the Department of Finance said “we have not specifically pursued it”, adding it had not been discussed with the departments responsible for Fás.
He was responding to chairman of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Bernard Allen, who said “nothing happens” in the civil service when such problems of waste are highlighted.
Mr Allen & said the details were “fairly disturbing” and asked: “What’s happening with it, from the highest department in Government? It seems nothing.”
