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)
11:30 am
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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WIT is a fine academic institution with great staff and students. Equally, however, we have a specific task to perform. This appears to be a case of a sole trader operating in an institute. The chairman of the institute was flying in economy class while the president was in first class on the same flight. The explanation the president gave was that it was common practice across all the third level institutes that presidents flew business or first class. Any rational person would see a problem with this. Why are we only now at the point of pursuing a legal case and when does Mr. Neavyn expect it to conclude?