John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Will the Comptroller and Auditor General deal with the legacy and historical issues that have arisen over the past three or four years specifically relating to Waterford? Will he scrutinise the different issues that have arisen and that have been aired at this committee? I will explain why I am asking him this. I met with Kieran Byrne, the former president of Waterford Institute of Technology. The blame for a lot of these issues landed on his doorstep. Having looked at it, I am not so sure this is fair. I am beginning to think, and the committee has discussed it as well, that the governance side of things in respect of the HEA needs to be looked at historically as well. How it performed in those years and the kind of scrutiny and oversight it gave Waterford Institute of Technology needs to be looked at very carefully. I believe there may be an unfairness with regard to how Kieran Byrne was dealt with ultimately, but I think those legacy issues should be looked at by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.