SIPTU gets access to report into controversial training fund

AFTER months of waiting, SIPTU has finally received access to an accountancy report on the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

Over the coming days, a subcommittee is to study the report carried out by Grant Thornton on the SIPTU national health and local authority levy fund.

Issues with that 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.