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- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Does the HEA not know if there is a deadline for the plan? This is integral to Galway. It has a proud history of providing a different type of education which the HEA is undermining now by going forward to universities and ignoring why they were set up but that is for another day. That is just my comment. It has a proud tradition of looking after people. The HEA is not able to tell me...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Brownlee is telling me the sustainable plan will be out in a few months.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is important to repeat, given the very bad headlines over the past number of years, that there are serious issues concerning the management of GMIT but not surrounding the lecturers or students. I would have expected the witnesses to tell me when the review will be complete but they have not told me there is a date when the plan will be published.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is on ongoing saga with GMIT in Galway and in Mayo.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Will there be a report, going back to what the witness said originally, in a few months' time? Will there be a written report?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good. I will finish off with a number of practical questions. There is a consultation process to look at where the technology colleges are going. Has there been feedback from the companies where the graduates have gone in Galway and elsewhere? Has there been written or verbal feedback from the company? The witnesses talk about stakeholders in the consultation process.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are the witnesses aware that the process of consultation includes getting feedback from the companies to which the graduates have gone?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is something I am raising because I believe it has not happened. I believe the companies have been very happy with the graduates that have come from GMIT and those courses are being undermined and underfunded and huge difficulties are being created for something that is theoretical. Nobody is actually looking at the practical situation on the ground. I will ask some final questions on...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Then we had a facilitator come in on top of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How much did the facilitator cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Despite her best efforts, it was not resolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is this a situation in which we had whistleblowers coming forward to indicate there were problems with travel claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is part of it. A number of whistleblowers came forward in good faith.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: We had this report and the facilitator and nothing has been resolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The whistleblowers have raised issues. Those issues were substantiated. The issues raised were about claims and not the actual money paid out because the money was caught in time. The issues raised in terms of claims being made for travel were substantiated.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where are those whistleblowers now? Are they still in the system? Were they rewarded or punished? Did they leave?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Two of the whistleblowers have been suspended.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will come back to that. The witness might not know this because it refers to the consolidated report and financial statements for Limerick on page 6. The university paid a former service provider €209,000 in connection with the termination of its appointment to the university. Are the witnesses aware of that or will I leave the question for witnesses from Limerick?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will leave it for Limerick.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What publication or published report?