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- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It was not separated before that.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I will leave it at that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I want to address my remarks to Professor Norton. Did he watch the "RTE Investigates" programme? Was there anything in it that surprised him or on which he would like to comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Professor Norton was with us on 6 April last. Subsequently, we received the Ernst & Young report. I have just dug out the transcript of our meeting from 6 April. Professor Nolan told us that the service had been contracted for the previous 15 years. I asked if the controls would be as robust as if a new service was being contracted. Essentially, the response was that the kind of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It only went through Agresso when generating the payment. That is the only aspect that seems to have gone through Agresso.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It did not escalate to the finance section. It seems to be have been signed off by the person in the library service instead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Only at the very end.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: What we are trying to establish is whether this loss could have been prevented if there had been robust due diligence done on the company in advance of the transaction being placed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: When did this happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: We were told the last time Mr. Whelan was here that services had been contracted for the previous 15 years. Were they contracted with the same company for the previous 15 years? In 2012 there was a new tendering process. This company came through that tendering process in 2012 and then it was just a repeat in 2013 and 2014.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I have a very limited amount of time. I do not need a history lesson. The witness may add something if it is a very short response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are telling us things have changed since. I hope they have. We got some information about that the last time the witnesses appeared before the committee. It is a very large amount of money and if anything could have been done to prevent it I think it is incumbent on us to make sure it is scrutinised. There seems to be quite a small number of very large payments that go...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The Ernst & Young report is a very short report. The committee was circulated a very extensive report which was generated on foot of the Ernst & Young report. The Ernst & Young report was the independent report. It was the one we should have been provided with. It should have been obvious to provide us with it in advance of the meeting. Why was that overlooked?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Can I just say-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Very quickly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I have heard Professor Norton talk about regrets several times and, to be perfectly honest, it is almost annoying at this stage because it would have been self-evident to send in the Ernst & Young report, which was the independent report. It would have been self-evident that it should be the report provided to us. It is after the event. It would have been very helpful to us while...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I have very limited time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Just conclude that response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Given the response I got to a very straight question about whether the controls would be as robust if a new service was being contracted, I feel I was misled on the last occasion the witnesses appeared before the committee. On the issue of the loss-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.