WIT board orders probe into €21k spent on president’s office

AN urgent review has been ordered by the board of Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) into how almost €21,000 was spent on its president Dr Kieran Byrne’s office last year.

The governing body has asked accountancy firm Deloitte to review spending recently revealed through freedom of information (FOI) requests.

Although the college would not answer questions on the precise spending to be probed, it is believed to relate to the recent revelation in the Irish Examiner that €20,828 was spent in 2010 on Dr Byrne’s offices in a building which opened in 2008.