SIPTU to pay €70k for HSE training fund report

SIPTU is to pay the €70,000 cost of an expert report on the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

This is despite the fact the union did not commission the report or know the account existed until an inquiry was launched into it.

Issues with the account — the signatories to which were SIPTU official Matt Merrigan and union member Jack Kelly — first became public at the start of the summer as part of an investigation into the HSE’s SKILL training fund.