Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
11:20 am
Dr. RuaidhrĂ Neavyn:
I will just go through the other expenses relating to the office of the former president. Costs associated with legal issues came to €22,428. That figure was for the case the former president is taking against the institute and the case we are taking in respect of reimbursement. We would obviously examine recouping the costs of the legal case should we win it. Those are the expenditure costs.
Moving on to costs associated with the consolidation of the DCS companies, the figure for the initial reports from Grant Thornton was €53,247. The figure for work to date relating to the consolidation process was another €46,524, giving a total of approximately €100,000 - that is, €99,771.