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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you. I have two final questions for Mr. McCarthy. Paragraph 4.7 states: "FeedHenry Ltd (established in June 2008) had its registered offices in ArcLabs". Deputy Connolly dealt with this earlier. From 2010 onwards, rent and expenses were incurred by the institute but which were recovered. However, from 2008 to 2010, there was no record of that. The institute said it is because it was not using any of the resources but Mr. McCarthy points out that it seems to be giving an address and telephone number based on ArcLabs. Again, not to get into the rights and wrongs of it because the institute's response is possibly correct, I am just trying to understand this. Did Mr. McCarthy include this because the point is that it cannot now be proven one way or the other?

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