Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
HEA Financial Statements 2017
9:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
We cannot look at specific cases because we are precluded from doing so. A disclosure is being considered currently and we cannot get into the detail of it. There are different rights of different people involved, including the disclosee and any person or organisation that he or she makes disclosures about. The Higher Education Authority, HEA, is clear this is in process. The person who makes the disclosure can always go to the Workplace Relations Commission if he or she wishes to. That is the protection in the legislation. We cannot get into analysing protected disclosures when the process has not been completed. The HEA has indicated there may well be a link between a possible disclosure of some sort in 2012 and the case under consideration. It cannot come to a view until the process for the current disclosure is complete. It is very hard for us to say anything more than that. This has not fallen between the cracks and we are working together on it. We are working through it. It is a very difficult-----
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