It’s time to terminate FÁS-type lifestyles

IT was hardly surprising to hear Údarás na Gaeltachta was doing a FÁS with public funds — and yet again we can expect no one will see the inside of a courtroom as a result.

The board of Údarás would have been well aware of the skeletons in their own closet while the FÁS scandal was front page news — yet none of them came forward to reveal the waste.

The opposition should introduce a bill making it clear that unless state agency employees who have engaged in similar behaviour come forward of their own volition, they will lose their benefits.