David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that, but it is still a huge amount of money over a six year time period.

The final line item I have a query on certainly raised an eyebrow for me. In 2015-2016 there was payment of €10,500 for Cork IT to Brian Murray SC for legal opinion. It just says, "Legal opinion PAC". It should be borne in mind I put the question to a former president of Cork IT, when he was in before us, as to whether the then Accounting Officer had got PR training - in fact, he had got PR training - on how to appear before the Committee of Public Accounts. We made the point then that I hoped the PR training was about how to answer questions and not how to not answer questions. Leaving that to one side, why did Cork IT seek legal opinion over attending a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, which cost €10,500?