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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Before we go to our first speaker, Deputy Donohoe, I have a few comments to make. Your opening statement almost ignores the detail of what happened in Waterford Institute of Technology and I am somewhat taken aback by that. Did you take the time to review any of the detail of our meeting of last week? Are you not absolutely shocked by the type of expenditure by the president's office, as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: What year was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The HEA has failed to instil that culture of audit and accountability in WIT over a ten year period. The HEA audit committee signed off on the accounts and the WIT governing body signed off on the accounts. The only person to raise it was Mr. McFeely. He was here last week. It surprises me that the HEA did not uncover some of the difficulties in WIT during the course of the past ten...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I am sorry, it was €635,000. Surely a question should been asked about it, but it was not raised. I do not expect the HEA to know every single detail and to get down to that level of management. I do, however, expect it to take its oversight role so seriously that WIT understands clearly what is expected of it. It is clear from this ten year period that management completely...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I ask you to deal with those questions and we will then go to Deputy Donohoe. I raise it at the start of the meeting simply because I was taken aback when you did not deal with it in your opening remarks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: There were two flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Mr. Ó Foghlú, do you wish to add to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: All paid by the institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: At a total cost of?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: That was in what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The three flights were in what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: We are still awaiting clarification from the institute on the reason for these flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The report by Deloitte & Touche did not uncover any of this information. You mentioned a report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: How much did that report cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: One flight at a cost of €4,200.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The report gave no other details about other flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: How much was Deloitte & Touche paid for that report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Even given the cost of the reports, they never uncovered the other two flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: One would imagine that having spent so much money on a report, it would have uncovered and provided all of those details, but this was not the case. As I see it, that is a failure on the part of Deloitte & Touche with regard to the presentation of the facts compared with what the committee is hearing thus far.