Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Higher Education Authority, in its wisdom, made comments around the 40 recommendations in its 2013 report, and four years later all the recommendations have not been implemented, although there has been progress, and three of four remain outstanding. It has taken another report to comment on the implementation. The HEA's comment, in the background, is that the Quigley report findings concluded that the relationship between WIT and its campus companies was unique to the sector and was not an appropriate one and that it had adverse effects on the governance of the institute and the management of its financial affairs. The report called for greater transparency, accountability and so on and had 42 recommendations. Do the witness believe this to be an indictment of the Waterford Institute of Technology?