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- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: An external review was carried out of this Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster. Is that available?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Professor O'Shea will check whether it is available, and if it is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is point No. 1. Point No. 2: have changes been carried out as a result of the May 2016 review?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Can Professor O'Shea outline the changes for me?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There was an internal audit. What happens with that? Following that review, I understand there was an internal audit of this organisation, or this entity. Has that gone up to the board of governors? Will you set out in writing for us whether that has happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will tell the witnesses why I am asking this. We are sick, sore and tired sitting here trying to extract information. That is one question to which I want a simple reply. Finally on this, I presume - and again, the witnesses are going to give me reassurance - that UCC complies fully with all the Government guidelines, procedures, rules and regulations for staff appointments. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Farrell tells me UCC complies with the regulations. I understand that if there is an exception, it needs prior permission from the Department. Has UCC gone outside in the last couple of years to employ senior people without the Department's permission?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Have they been complied with in the case of the organisation I have mentioned or anybody employed out of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I understand. Mr. Farrell will come back on all those issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have only a few practical questions, and the question raised by Deputy McDonald is one of them. We have all been notified about the discrepancy in respect of the number of staff who had left the college and who have come back. Can that be clarified? It is a practical question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that. It is like being ambushed in a sense. I do not wish to do that. If I just stay general for a moment and then I will ask my three or four specific questions. I have noticed over recent engagements that we are dragging things out of institutions. The HEA is reliant on the institutions to be more or less self-managing. We have all these independent outsiders coming in,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. DIT has a foundation. Does it have an office on its campus?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Does it pay rent for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is something I have asked to come back to. If I take the case of NUIG, its foundation does not pay rent, as Professor Norton is saying of DIT's foundation, because they give money. They give money under conditions, however. We do not know what the conditions are. I am just taking it as an example. It builds many buildings as opposed to looking at poverty or putting in a professor of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Am I correct that DIT is the first institution to agree to consolidate their foundation accounts with its own accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It has minor foundations. The bigger foundations have not been consolidated by the colleges.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I do not want reassurances. That is for another day. I only want to know about accountability.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that clarification and it is something to which I would like to return. I look forward to getting more information on it. That contrasts with the Galway foundation, which is the richest foundation in the country. I have a number of questions for Dr. Murphy regarding his college. I put the first question to the UCC delegation earlier. Is it correct that CIT, UCC and the Naval...