Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion

10:50 am

Mr. Tom Boland:

I will try to deal with all of those points and should I omit any of them please indicate and I will take them up again. Naturally, I read the transcript of the of the proceedings last week. I cannot say I was shocked because we already knew the details. We already knew these details because upon the matter becoming public through a freedom of information request we wrote to the institute of technology and asked for details and for the institute to carry out a thorough inquiry into what the various allegations related to. The institute did so.