Professor Willie Donnelly:

While I agree that there were some errors in the process, if the Deputy is asking whether governance arrangements were in place, they were. If she asks me whether the governance arrangements in place were consistent with what was in place in the rest of the third level sector, they were. Reviews carried out by international reviewers over a number of years have shown this. I would not like the Committee of Public Accounts to gain an understanding that what was happening in Waterford was-----