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- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: -----because I am seeing in front of me a long-winded answer to a straightforward question. Was there a formal contract or not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: That is the benefit of asking the Chairman and his forgetting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Was a risk analysis carried out?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: But was that not a critique in the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Can I stop Professor Norton there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: No, I am going to ask Professor Norton to stop.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: I am asking Professor Norton to stop and he can come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: I merely asked if a risk analysis was done. That was a critique in the report. He has acknowledged that no, there was no risk analysis done. I know he is going to tell me that all of that will be reviewed and changes will be made but either a risk analysis was done or it was not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: And that was part of the critique, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Was there any form of approval by anyone regarding making the pre-payment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Dr. Cohen did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Was that a mistake on his part?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Was there a loss of €718,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: That would be a fairly big mistake, would it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: A further €760,000 then had to be spent on a second supplier, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: How did that go?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: I will make a general point, which I have made already. This committee is going to produce a report on the third level institutes. The HEA's role in examinations and investigations should form part of it. The committee needs to consider whether it is satisfied with the use of these external companies and the handsome money they are paid to do work, and whether that is truly independent,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: Did the report on DIT go beyond the money spent on the library? Did it go deeper than that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: In addition to the matters discussed earlier about the lack of management oversight, no formal contract and no risk analysis, it also found €29.5 million spent over three years that did not pass through proper internal approval processes. That was a claim in the programme, is it correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
David Cullinane: The point is that they were not put through the proper internal approval processes.