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
11:50 am
Mr. Conor Dunne:
There were two sources of funding, the first from Pobal, which was spent on materials, and the second from FÁS, which was used to pay workers on the jobs initiative, JI, scheme. The project involved refurbishment of a famine hostel outside Tipperary town. There are a number of items included in the €150,000. Pobal is conducting an investigation, which I understand is also with the Garda Síochána. Wearing the State's hat, we provided funding for the scheme which, in our view, was not spent correctly.