CIT criticised for heavily redacting €65k report into misspending allegations

Cork Institute of Technology has spent almost €65,000 investigating a number of whistleblower allegations of misspending.

Last year the Oireachtas’s public spending watchdog received anonymous correspondences outlining a number of allegations against CIT.

The whistleblower’s catalogue of allegations include claims the college spent an ‘excessive’ sum of €21m in consultancy fees in the five years prior to 2012; that there was excessive spending on hospitality and entertainment at the institute; and that the college’s yachts were taken out by staff for personal use.