Former VEC faces €400k bill after department stand-off

Over €400,000 may have to be written off by the Limerick and Clare Education Training Board (ETB) as a result of weaknesses in the control of capital projects by the former County of Limerick VEC.

The Irish Examiner has learnt that Limerick and Clare ETB has been engaged in talks with the Department of Education lasting more than two years as to who should pay for €418,792 spent on a number of schools projects in Limerick dating back more than 10 years.

The department has thus far given no signal that it is willing to reimburse Limerick and Clare ETB the monies which the County of Limerick VEC failed to draw down over a period of a number of years.