Ex-milk board employees paid €1.8m for doing nothing

A group of former milk board employees were paid for doing nothing by the Department of Agriculture over a seven-year period, it emerged today.

Ex-milk board employees paid €1.8m for doing nothing

A group of former milk board employees were paid for doing nothing by the Department of Agriculture over a seven-year period, it emerged today.

The workers lost their jobs when the Dublin and Cork Milk boards were sold to the private sector in 1992 and were promised that they would be re-allocated to jobs in the public sector.

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