Tánaiste’s wife to work for Quinn in VEC reshuffle

The wife of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to become a policy specialist for his Labour Party colleague Ruairí Quinn as part of redeployment arrangements for vocational education committee (VEC) chiefs.

Carol Hanney is chief executive of Dún Laoghaire VEC but is one of three permanent CEOs who was to be moved to a different post when the 33 VECs become 16 education and training boards (ETBs) next year.

Although 14 VEC chiefs are in the job on an acting basis and will return to their former jobs, only 16 posts will be available to the 19 permanent CEOs when Mr Quinn establishes the ETBs under laws currently going through the Oireachtas.