Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They did. I am criticising them, not the witness specifically, although he does not escape all criticism. Those bodies should not have accepted that. It was inappropriate governance for them to accept a set of guidelines set by the witness's organisation. People, however innocent they may be, who were potentially implicated by a whistleblower's report were party, albeit with a couple of degrees of separation, to setting the terms of reference. That is wrong and it stinks to high heaven. In terms of people's innocence and good standing, it does nothing for the good name of those implicated that the HEA had a look and concluded that it looked great. In their interest, we will start again in September. One thing that jumped out and bothered me was that, as Deputy Kelly said, a portrait of the witness was painted. I have seen it and it is very good. Is there an art college in CIT?

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