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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is it correct to say that there was a serious problem with those?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: We will move forward. I know the Chairman asked this but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Higher Education Authority, in its wisdom, made comments around the 40 recommendations in its 2013 report, and four years later all the recommendations have not been implemented, although there has been progress, and three of four remain outstanding. It has taken another report to comment on the implementation. The HEA's comment, in the background, is that the Quigley report findings...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I try to be fair.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am not confusing anything.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: No. I am bringing it up because we have the report and we have the HEA's comments from this year. I am not going back into the history. I am looking at January of this year and I am asking Professor Donnelly to acknowledge, first, that it was an indictment. Maybe that is too strong a word but it certainly was not good practice or good governance. WIT was forced into change because of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: How many recommendations remain outstanding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: The service level agreement is a very basic document.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Okay. My last two questions are around what will happen with the deficit. What plans are in place? What is the deficit? Is it €15 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I will finish up. My last question is on conflict of interest. The Quigley report from 2013 identified very serious issues that were not just financial problems, some of which I can pick at random. This might not be fair but tell me if I am being unfair. Financial reporting by WIT management to the governing body was inadequate. Two people were employed by a company, they were still...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: It was not precisely. Professor Donnelly did not come in and say this was serious and that these were practices that should not have happened. I did not hear Professor Donnelly saying that. If somebody is employed by a company, paid by the Waterford Institute of Technology and the money not recouped, then this is serious.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have read the report. I am not going back for the sake of going back. This report and the recommendations around the problems with the companies has been given as a reason or an explanation to the Comptroller and Auditor General for the delay in accounts. That is the difficulty.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Waterford Institute of Technology was forced to. A report had to be done in order for the Waterford Institute of Technology to embrace it. In 2017 it is still being implemented. These companies-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: These companies should not have happened in that manner.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Does Professor Donnelly believe that he has any conflict of interest in relation to his job?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: No not these companies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: So Professor Donnelly has complied with all-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have asked this of every single-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Certainly.