John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We can indeed. Representatives from the Department will be here on 22 October. I asked the question because it also relates to the Department of Education and Skills. We received a report a short time ago about serious allegations against the Cork Institute of Technology, CIT. My understanding was that the report was so heavily redacted that one could not make out any answer to the queries raised by a whistleblower, yet that report cost €98,000, if I am not mistaken. I can check it this morning. No one has had any value out of it and certainly the Committee of Public Accounts has had no value out of it.

Arising from the conversation we have had about the various accounts and procurement and so on, I will ask the clerk to draw together some piece of information so that perhaps we can quickly make a special report on this to the various Ministers and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I welcome Deputy Dowds’ comments about that sanction, which of course is the last port of call but the steps taken leading to that might create a dynamic within an organisation that will make people be a bit more careful.

We have dealt with WIT, St. James’s Hospital, Tusla, Beaumont Hospital, to a degree, and the other accounts. We now move to No. 4.39, the Church of Ireland College of Education.