Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My final questions are on the Mazars report. It goes back to what I asked about the cost of reports and facilitators. Presumably, Professor Barry will come back with the cost and number of facilitators. It is 5 o'clock so it is okay if Professor Barry does not have that figure. I would like it because I have seen a reference to at least two. There are all of the legal costs as well as a result of the human resource issues. I would like to know the number of facilitators.

It took a report to get the university to implement the recommendations. I ask this of every institution, how come the university's internal controls did not result in alarm bells ringing? Why did it take a €70,000 report, which is just one specific item, to tell the university to implement these recommendations? They highlighted lots of things and the university accepted them. It has implemented all of the recommendations with the exception of two. The university has accepted that there were failings. Why did it take such an effort? I will not go into the people who have contacted us but considering the toll on the institution, the toll in terms of the taxpayer and the toll on the people, why did it take so much to rectify something?