Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013

11:30 am

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will start with Dr. Murphy. He has given a considerable account around these allegations made anonymously and the process pursuant to them. We have more correspondence. I am unsure whether Dr. Murphy is aware of it. It relates to December of this year, so it is current. It would not be fair to go through the details of it with him now and I have no wish to bounce him in that way. However, a thought occurs to me. How does Dr. Murphy account for this rash of allegations? I am not asking him to comment on the outcome of the independent inquiry. However, questions have to be asked about this pattern of allegations. Is there a cultural problem in the institute? Is there a management problem in the institute? Is it simply disgruntled individuals? These questions occur to me notwithstanding Dr. Murphy's account of the procedure of investigation. Will Dr. Murphy comment on this?

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