Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014
10:00 am
Mr. Stewart Roche:
With regard to the ERDF and ESF, 2013 was a particularly high period of article 13 checks. We are part of a cascade to claim money back from Europe under the ERDF and ESF and, as I mentioned, the recoverable amount for the Exchequer is just under €100 million. This came to just under €200,000 in 2013 and was payable to Mazars. It is not all with regard to article 13 checks as Mazars is also our outsourced internal auditor. We also have the Marie Curie award which I mentioned, which was also €80,000 in 2013. Our legal costs were just under €40,000. We did other surveys which came to approximately €25,000. We had other panel members which amounted to approximately €50,000. We sponsored undergraduate awards, which amounted to just under €70,000. We had further statistical research, eurostudent surveys and socio-economic coding which amounted to just under €110,000. We also had a strategic dialogue process, which amounted to just under €90,000. We had the UCC medicine study which amounted to approximately €20,000 or €25,000. We had the access programme which cost €31,000. There was the ESF programme which cost €20,000. There were other various amounts, which came to quite a substantial amount of money.
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