Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

At the meeting last week, my recollection is that the representatives from Waterford Institute of Technology did not make a statement about a flight from Waterford to Dublin. I think it was one of the Deputies who raised the question. It was by reference to the Deloitte report, which states that Bell Airways "charter of a plane to transport a visitor from Waterford to Dublin in 2007" cost €4,200. After the meeting I asked to see the invoice in respect of that expenditure. The invoice that was produced relates to a flight in June of that year. We drew that fact to the attention of WIT. I do not believe that the president understood last week that there were a number of flights. It was in the context of responding to us, when we queried the invoice for the June flight - which involves an amount of €4,200 - that the institute discovered that there was an earlier flight as well. That is what kicked matters off. At the meeting, the president did not know there was a second flight.