Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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I apologise because I was just observing a set of financial statements and they prompted a question for me. Grangegorman had a 6.6-fold increase in its travel and subsistence expenditure between 2022 and 2023. It is a very material sum. It went from €1,500 for the year to €10,000. I spotted it and I was curious as to why there was a 660% increase in travel expenses. It does not seem reasonable. Would the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General carry out a reasonableness test on every changing figure between years, or would this have been scoped out because of materiality?