David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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It is not about the board at this point. If the HEA cannot do the report, what was discussed at the last meeting with the Department, when it was in with the HEA, was that it can appoint a statutory inspector to do the exact same work that the author of the HEA report, which cannot now be published, carried out. We have to make a decision as a committee whether we are satisfied or content with leaving the process go and saying that it cannot be published for legal reasons. That is fair enough and we accept that if they stepped outside their remit but the issues have not changed. That is the point. None of the concerns and the issues that have been raised by individuals or by those who have a different interpretation of what was raised will be tested or independently examined if it is just left as the Department and the HEA seem to be advocating.