Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019

9:30 am

Dr. Alan Wall:

We worked through a process with IT Tralee before it was incorporated around the overheads it has and the way in which we could address them.

Recommendations came out of that and we used a third party to work between the two of us to work through what the options were. We have shared those options with the Department because they are not options we can trigger but they are being considered in the context of MTU. They are with the Department but they are being considered in the context of the new dispensation that is down there. IT Tralee is under the protection of what was the IT so to an extent that is being covered. We are engaging with the Department and MTU around this. On the basis of the due diligence we have done, we have recommended taking certain steps. This took a while. We worked very closely with-----

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