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The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (Pac) Bernard Allen said it was “regrettable” that the former director general of the State training agency Fás Rody Molloy did not appear before it today.

Mr Molloy, who was due to appear to answer questions about spending at the authority’s corporate affairs division, resigned as director general on Tuesday.