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

Mr. Paul Gallagher:

The particular concerns that were brought to us were complicated in nature. They involved elements of grievance, elements of potential disclosure and so on. We engaged with the staff member to see how best to apply the policy structure that was in place. Both the grievance policy was provided and the protected disclosure policy - albeit in daft at that time - was provided. Neither of those policies or procedures was invoked.