Gilmore: I had no role in wife’s job

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn have said Mr Gilmore’s wife was treated the same as other senior education figures when given a job at the Department of Education.

Carol Hanney will be redeployed from her job as CEO of Dún Laoghaire VEC next year when the 33 VECs become 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs).

As reported last week by the Irish Examiner, she will become a policy specialist on further education and training under a scheme agreed for three VEC chiefs who will lose out. They are the shortest-serving of the 19 permanent CEOs, and 14 who are currently in an acting role returning to former jobs when the ETBs are formed next year.