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Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: So there is a committee and an office?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: They then report back to the governing body?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Have any conflicts of interest relating to companies on campus been brought to Ms McCausland's attention? Has she had to look at anything?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Have certain people declared conflicts of interest and opted out in respect of the two companies that were mentioned or the other one?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The impact of the reduction in staff has arisen in Galway. A reduction in staff obviously impacts differently on different courses. Business courses have less staff and more students. Presumably, engineering is more hands-on.

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is it not correct that Dundalk Institute of Technology is reducing engineering?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I heard Ms Campbell say this and that it would be brought up straight through to Level 8.

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Has Dundalk Institute of Technology had feedback from the companies where its graduates were placed?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: All of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It was in that context that I raised it today. It seems that Dundalk has gone a step further. I will keep an open mind.

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Rather than going into this with the witnesses present, I suggest we proceed with the meeting and come back to this issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Later today.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am going to give Professor Barry a break for a moment and address my question back to Mr. Mannion on something I raised this morning about Dundalk Institute of Technology. I have been thinking about that the matter concerning the Public Appointments Service.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Then Mr. Mannion mentioned the Office of Government Procurement. Is that what he said?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Does that mean tendering out?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Mannion try to make it clearer for me? It was the Public Appointments Service up until now. I went through it myself in a different life. This has been changed to the office of-----

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How does the Department of Education and Skills tender for a president?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: So the Department would tender for a company? Am I being deliberately-----

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have serious concerns about that but have not had enough time to think about it. A move is being made from the Public Appointments to a private recruitment process where the Department tenders for a recruitment company to provide a president-----