Dept of Education - Do you know where the money goes?

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€2m wasted on HQ as VEC relocates to rented property - Craig Hughes → independent.ie/national-news … 17102.html

However, when asked by Mr McGuinness how much the State had invested in the Longford property, Ms McManus admitted she did not know the exact figure.

Earlier this week the PAC heard of a litany of waste and bad management practices within the Department of Education including:

"Cork VEC had overpaid teachers, put students at risk by allowing a convicted rapist to drive students around, lost €161,000 in a software project and a potential €400,000 after signing away the rights to the intellectual property.

"Kildare VEC spent €890,000 on computers as well as additional services from a former employee. Kildare VEC had to be bailed out by the State at a cost of €20m on the back of a failed property deal.

"€92m of funding was obtained from the EU globalisation fund to retrain and upskill unemployed workers who had lost their jobs at Waterford Crystal, Dell and SR Technics as well as in the construction industry. However, due to ‘estimate errors’ by the department, €60m of this funding was returned to the EU.

“€17m has been spent on psychological assessments of children yet the department has no idea how many children have actually been assessed. Despite there being no cap on the amount of funding to have children assessed, many families are going to charities such as the Saint Vincent de Paul in order to finance private assessments as public appointments.”

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