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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: In the future, will all the finances be reported together? I presume that is what consolidation means.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Why was the foundation set up separate from UCC?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Are they identified here?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I shall move on to procurement rules. Over €4.4 million went to 39 suppliers in respect of goods and services for which the procurement process did not comply with public procurement guidelines. Thirty-nine is a high number, as is €4.4 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I understand procurement involves public tendering. In this case, it looks as if someone could cause sweet deals to be done, with only one individual. Is that the reason this is being mentioned here?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I am trying to identify what is happening.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is why I asked. A sum of €4.4 million is a lot of money.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I am sorry for going fast because my time is limited. With regard to income from student residences, the figure in 2015-16 was €7.72 million, up nearly €2 million on the figure for 2014-15. Why did rental income increase so much in one year?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: In what way are the rents set? Are they based on market values? Does the university have its own system in place?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What percentage-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What percentage of students are on campus?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask about the shareholding in the spin-out company InfiniLED, associated with the Tyndall National Institute. Could the witnesses outline the process engaged in by the university to dispose of its shareholding? How did it get involved in the first instance? What kind of company is it? What is the set-up? I see the university still has not got all its moneys from the sell-off.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Was it a profitable return based on the investment?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: My last question, to the HEA, is on the technological university for the south east. What is the status of the initiative to merge Carlow and Waterford institutes of technology? How far has it advanced? When can we see some movement on it? I have to come back to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: When will it actually be granted the status?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is good news.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his commitment to examine a number of proposals to improve cardiac care in the south east, including the deployment of a modular laboratory that will allow for diagnostic angiograms and intervention procedures; the status of efforts by UHW management to recruit additional staff to extend the operation of the existing cath lab by 20%;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Question Heading (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to Irish Medical Organisation data which predicts that 42% of general practitioners in County Kilkenny will retire over the next five to seven years. [23547/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of running and maintaining the school transport appeals board; the value of payments to staff and all associated staff in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals granted by the school transport appeals board in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23647/18]