Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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To continue in that vein of discussing safeguards and ensuring adequate internal controls are in place, it is difficult to understand, against the backdrop of 2015, which I realise is going back four years and is not ideal, how a body with charitable status could authorise a trip, around which there is very little detail, to a five star hotel at a cost in excess of €10,000. How is something like that authorised? Surely, someone within the organisation would know about it. I am sure it was discussed widely within the organisation. What internal controls were in place? I would have thought something like that would have been stamped out decades ago.