Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

No, we have not requested that the €13,000 or €14,000 be repaid. We have conducted a review of the expenditure, line by line. We have concluded that about €6,000 or €7,000 was not in accordance with the institute's own policies on hospitality and so on. We have written to CIT to seek its response as to why and how it happened and what it has put in place to prevent it happening again. This has just happened in the last week. It has been to a subcommittee of our board and will be going to the full board for further consideration next week.