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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Why did they write to Mr. Gallagher on that occasion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Am I on a different planet here? If allegations are made about people, however false or negative they may be, is it not wholly inappropriate from the perspective of the HEA and the Department? I say without prejudice that it is just wrong. There is a conflict here. I am saying this without prejudice. I am not pointing any fingers. How in God's name can the executive and other people who...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. We are saying that Arthur Cox designed the terms of reference. Is that the position?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Do we have those terms of reference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: They can be sent on. We do not need to go into them now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: To be honest, I think it is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Of course. Go on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It was not tossed over to somebody else.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is about getting these things investigated. To repeat an analogy that I feel bound to use without prejudice, if somebody burgles a house we do not ask the burglar to investigate how it was done. Why is this process not managed by the HEA or the Department? They could say they are going to have a look at this, they are going to have a competitive tendering process and they are going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No, sorry. I am talking about the anonymous one. We know it was a protected disclosure. We asked the Department to investigate whether other ones existed prior to 2017. The executive has told us that there was none.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What section of the Act is that guidance in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I see. The Act allows the Department to issue its own guidance. It has decided that the best people to investigate an alleged problem are those who are the subjects of the allegation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It cannot investigate itself. Is any of us alive to what has been going on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----in Ireland for the past ten years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There is no complexity. It is black and white. If there is an allegation against me, I need to be 100 miles away from the investigation other than when the independent investigator comes to me to ask me questions about it. Why did KPMG consult the executive only? Why did it not conduct wholesale interviews across a random selection of staff to see if any of these things stands up? It did...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Will I be able to come in again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: On that point, what Dr. O'Connor has said-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----would be perfectly reasonable if the same people were not parties or named players in a protected disclosure.