Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This did not conform with the institute's travel policy in terms of identifying the best use of resources and ensuring that public transport would be used if that was a cheaper alternative. It did not comply with the institute's policy at that time. The current governing body of the institute believes that the specific transactions relating to flights were unnecessary and did not represent good value for money, that the procurement and authorisation processes adopted were inappropriate and that the information available regarding these flights was insufficient and inadequate.