Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The witness might review the practice, bearing in mind the financial deficit in the institute over several years, in one of which there was a loss of €126,000. That loss might only have been €104,000 had the portraits not been paid for. It niggles at people that a portrait of the college president is commissioned at a cost of €22,000 but the college is teaching artists in whom it does not have sufficient confidence to ask them to do the portrait.