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

Maybe that could have been one of the recommendations. Given that it was not in the document, perhaps the institute can accept that for these types of strategic big sales or initiatives, it should keep better records.

I will move on to conclusions and recommendations on page 21 of the report. Paragraph 2.20 states: "The Governing Body of Waterford Institute of Technology adopted a local policy to deal with commercialising IP and managing conflicts of interest in February 2010 — almost six years after this was recommended in the 2004 national code of practice." Who was the vice president for research from 2004 to 2010?

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