Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
It seems that was the case with the National Maritime College. That is a problem, considering the difficulties that have emerged since.
We will be getting into more detail on these matters with Cork Institute of Technology, CIT, but there was a whistleblower's report and a KPMG report into the issue, the latter of which highlighted that pages were missing from the whistleblower's report which it had received, in particular page 14. The KPMG report was heavily redacted but states that it was felt the allegation was adequately addressed and may have related to somebody retiring today and coming back in as a consultant on Monday. I think this referred to the scientist who was the project manager. I have managed to find the missing page 14 and, despite the then president of CIT calling the contents of the report malicious falsehoods in an article in the Irish Examiner, page 14 highlighted all these matters. Somebody was hired as a consultant on the Monday after retiring. Is that normal? We have heard of-----
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