Fás travel expenditure - Extravagance at taxpayers’ expense

The abuse of travelling expenses within the public service should not be any great surprise.

Rody Molloy, the director-general of the state training agency Fás, defended his company’s expenditure in an RTÉ interview yesterday.

Probably the most disturbing aspect of the interview was his attitude to the whole thing. He clearly saw nothing wrong with the behaviour of his executives. He was responding to questions in relation to exposures in a newspaper article as a result of information released under the Freedom of Information Act.