Údarás foreign travel under scrutiny

A REVIEW has been ordered into foreign travel expense claims in Údarás na Gaeltachta over the past five years.

The review will include one staff member’s trip to China at a cost of €14,000 for a meeting with another Irish agency, the IDA.

The state agency charged with bringing development into the Gaeltacht has defended the trip to Shanghai where just one staff member racked up the massive bill, saying it was “deemed necessary to assess a project which was subsequently approved.”