‘Improve how €360m training fund is run’

The Department of Education has been told to improve accountability and transparency in the management of the €360m National Training Fund.

This came after the department had to reverse a move it made to raid €9m from the fund to cover “significant risks” that threatened the budget of Fás throughout 2012.

This should not have been done and the department had to get retrospective approval for taking the money from the NTF in the first place.