Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will name a few for Mr. Conlan and perhaps he will fill me in. In 2006, Mr. Simon Hall, who was mentioned earlier, travelled to Nashville to a conference and to Texas with somebody else from CRC. In 2007, he went to Orlando, which is where the FÁS guys went. In 2009, he was in Orlando again for CRC with five staff members for several days. I am sure there were conferences. In that case, four of the staff gave a ten minute lecture between them so that probably justified their trip. In 2010, he was in Vancouver with Mr. Tom Kehoe, whom Mr. Conlan knows. In 2011, he was in Buenos Aires. I do not know whether he was with anybody. In 2012, he was in Vancouver and New Delhi. Presumably all of these trips involved conferences. In 2013, he was back in Nashville and he is due to be in Vancouver again in March this year. Is this justifiable expenditure?