David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I am looking at a breakdown for Cork Institute of Technology of money spent on outside consultants every year. It strikes me when I look at the figure of €150 million and the institute's spend on consultants that the institutes cannot open an envelope without asking an outside group to give an opinion. It is amazing on what the money is spent and the amount spent. That raises questions about what the hell the HEA is doing and what its role is in all of this. For example, there was a feasibility study of experimental sheep research for a project, at a cost of €131,000, for the academic year 2012-13. Other spending included a sum of €65,000 on PR for CIT. The word "medical" also appears a lot on the list and I am not sure what it means: "Medical - €61,000" and "medical - €19,000".