Local VEC project oversight ‘defective’

THE State spending watchdog has found Cork County VEC’s oversight of a costly and failed computer teaching programme at a Cork school was defective.

The Comptroller and Auditor General, John Buckley, said CCVEC had paid €168,000 to a private software development company — Mobile Voyager Solutions — but the contract was unclear and put taxpayers at a disadvantage.

The money formed the bulk of a €215,986 bill for the three-year lease of equipment to Glanmire Community College who eventually lost €161,990 when MVS went out of business and CCVEC was called on to meet the repayments.