Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is the crucial question. I do not know if the Comptroller and Auditor General is right, in the sense that he is 99% of the time, but it has been confirmed to us in correspondence that rent totalling €50,000 was paid over as part of the extension. When the chief executive officer was in, we clearly asked if it was paying rent and she said it was not but it was going to. She did not say it had been paying rent for a portion of 2016 and 2017 when it had done so. Did the Minister for Education and Skills give his consent under the Acts to pay that money for rent?