Clerk to the Committee:

In a nutshell what we are talking about in this case is that people did not shout "stop" when they became aware of the issue. Much the report is based on the roles of the Higher Education Authority, the governing bodies and the internal audit in order that this kind of thing does not happen again. What happened in WIT was that the major focus was on developing the university status and it lost sight of the control mechanism. We need to ensure that does not happen again. There are a number of recommendations on the governing bodies, the size, the need for the internal audit to review propriety spending, and the need to develop a whistleblowers' charter. It is much the same stuff that is coming back in. It is about making sure that this cascade of responsibility, which they referred to at the meeting, actually works because it did not work in the Waterford situation. They did not know what was going on. That is it in a nutshell.