Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund

11:40 am

Mr. Conor Dunne:

It was reported in previous accounts as nugatory expenditure. There were two separate leases over two time periods. We held two investigations. We rented a premises that was not fit for purpose or used as a training centre. It had been used for storage. Nearly everyone involved in the lease has retired. We have new procedures in place whereby, if someone wants to renew a lease, one must make a business case that must be approved by the assistant director general of operations and signed off by me. The case must then go before the chairman and the director general for approval. We have had a robust procedure for a number of years.

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