VEC won’t deliver keylease report in public

County Cork VEC has accepted there were problems with unauthorised leases at Mallow Youthreach but at the last minute voted to deliver a report on the matter behind closed doors.

The Department of Education has said it was given wrong information about a series of unapproved leases CCVEC signed in Mallow in order to access unsanctioned borrowing from the local credit union.

The matter was raised at the Public Accounts Committee and CCVEC has been asked to account for what happened. However a plan by CCVEC’s acting CEO, Joan Russell, to explain what happened in public session was blocked.