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

So they had been in the HEA's line of sight. I will return to CIT.

The issues regarding DIT have been well rehearsed. I want to welcome DIT to Grangegorman. It is within a stone's throw of where I live. The campus is stunning and I wish the DIT well there. It will be a big opportunity for the inner city and for educational opportunity in our neighbourhoods, which is much needed. I would like to talk with them about that at some stage. I hope they will take this in the spirit in which it is intended, because it is mildly critical, but I do not find its staff very engaging with the community. It is a problem and I will talk to Professor Norton about it on another occasion. I have been very frustrated in trying to make it happen and I hope he will hear that message.

It was December 2015 when Dr. Murphy was here last, so it was on the brow of a general election. Does he remember I asked him what was going on? He had a whole series of anonymous allegations that came in two waves. I felt at the time he had been a little dismissive; he wondered who was to get into the mindset of someone who would bring forward these allegations and I suggested to him that perhaps he might look at the culture in CIT and what was going on. It is quite something for people to come forward, albeit anonymously, with such a comprehensive critique of the organisation for which Dr. Murphy is in charge. I do not know if Dr. Murphy is still active or has he retired?

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