Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014
10:00 am
Mr. Stewart Roche:
Of the total of €759,000, we outsourced our internal audit and we also did quite extensive checking under the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, and the European Social Fund, ESF, and this was procured through Mazars. That programme has recovered just under €100 million for the State for 2012, 2013 and 2014. This cost was just under €110,000. We also contribute €80,000 to the Marie Curie postgraduate award. We did an alumni destination report for the Irish Research Council, IRC, and that came to just under €40,000. We have our own legal costs, which came to just about €35,000. We did an employers survey through the ESRI and that came to approximately €20,000. As Mr. Boland mentioned, we had panel fees and various reviews and previous strategic dialogue which came to approximately €80,000. We have used the ESRI on occasion for statistical research on eurostudent surveys and socio-economic coding, which came to approximately €77,000. The strategic dialogue process and consultancy in this regard came to approximately €230,000, of which a major element was a procured consultant. That accounts for most of it and there are miscellaneous other bits and pieces.
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