Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 104 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Waterford Institute of Technology - Development and Disposal of Intellectual Property in FeedHenry

9:00 am

Professor Willie Donnelly:

No. That is important because I know this. The person who carried out the review interviewed 50 people, which includes people in KTI, the HEA, the Department, and people who work in the institute. To protect the institute, and perhaps Deputy Cullinane can say it, there were not 50 people who made disclosures or statements about the institute. There are 50 people who were interviewed, as would be appropriate. This is how the institute gets a bad name. People say to me, "I hear there are 50 people making disclosures about Waterford Institute of Technology". Fifty people, as appropriate, were interviewed in order to carry out the process. That is what has been communicated to me. I request that we be very careful when we make statements about the number of people who made disclosures. I think the Deputy said it was 15, 12 or whatever.

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