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- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: I doubt that the witness would. It strikes me as an unusual way to operate. It certainly would not be acceptable now. In the report from Deloitte, despite the fact that perhaps Deloitte was the wrong group to do it, was there any suggestion, with regard to the president's expenditure, that there was any expenditure incurred in the president's office that was for purposes other than those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: Is that on the back of the Deloitte report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: Is there a suggestion that any of the expenditure incurred in the president's office was for purposes that were not for the institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: Could the witness tell us what they are?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: The report I am reading is WIT making a report to the HEA, in effect, which is a summary of the Deloitte report. I am sure the witness has seen that document.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: It says that overall controls at the institute were sound, as evidenced by annual Comptroller and Auditor General management letters and internal audit reports. Does the witness agree with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: It goes on to say that at no stage has Deloitte or the governing body suggested that any expenditure incurred in the president's office was for purposes other than those of the institute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: The witness does not agree with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: This report says the opposite.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: I do not know much about this, which is why I am asking these questions. Is the witness saying the two Deloitte reports are in conflict with each other on that issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: The witness is not quite answering my question. Is he saying the second Deloitte report-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: I have the summary here. It is a very important point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: How much was Deloitte paid for the two reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: Does the witness have no idea?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Shane Ross: It was approximately €100,000 for the two reports.
- Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)
Shane Ross: I am always a little suspicious when a Bill of this sort is produced on a Monday morning at the end of a session. I wonder if it is intended that it will go through without the maximum scrutiny and discussion and that, of course, is exactly what will happen to the Bill. The briefing document states the Bill has a single purpose: to increase the maximum number of High Court judges from 35 to...
- Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)
Shane Ross: I have not done so.
- Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)
Shane Ross: I do not intend to do so.
- Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)
Shane Ross: However, the evidence is utterly compelling and has appeared in print and elsewhere without being corrected or contradicted that when in power, Fianna Fáil nominated people to the Judiciary who were so identifiably Fianna Fáil that they brought the judicial system into disrepute. It had been hoped when Fine Gael and the Labour Party took power that they would reform the system and...