9th July 2005, 01:14 AM
a lot of companies paid for their staff to do it, and then those staff up and left to other companies, so now they require you to have it before you start working for them. It depends on where in Ireland you do it too, in Dublin it can be up to 200 Euros but I did a search on the Fas website to find trainers in a convenient county and managed to find a course for 90 Euros. I don't think that you can do it outside Ireland. Other EU countries have their equivalent and we were originally told that as the safepass card has the European Union symbol on it it was ok elsewhere, but I know of diggers who were told they'd have to do it again by the relevant authorities - I think it's a money making scheme to be honest....
Lucy
Lucy