Gas Networks Ireland fined for overrun cover-up

An investigation into “serious financial impropriety” in Gas Networks Ireland north and south of the border has resulted in a fine of £500,000 (€644,122) in the North and sanctions against four employees of the company in the Republic, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Despite the impropriety being primarily focused here, the regulatory authority here has not fined the company as it is not empowered to do so.

The impropriety was first reported in this newspaper in December 2014 after a whistleblower came forward with a series of claims about how an overrun of £500,000 on a pipeline project in the Republic in 2003 was covered up by assigning costs to other jobs, including one that was based in Northern Ireland.