Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019

9:30 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I am just finishing and I will not come back in. There is an interim president at the moment. It is a matter of concern to me that the corporate secretary to the board reports to the chief corporate officer, who was in with us, a Mr. Flaherty, and Mr. Flaherty did not go through a recruitment process and was appointed by the interim president. I think the integrity of the recruitment process is, therefore, compromised and I think that none of the above should be involved. That is a personal view, based on evidence given to us on the last day. What will the HEA do about it? What can it do about it? Would this not concern it?