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- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is one year and three months ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: To return to the board, did the absence of power not come up for discussion before at board level regarding what authority the HEA did or did not have?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Both. On this issue and generally, given the range of difficulties with governance regularly emerging at this committee alone.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Before the WIT report, the absence of power did not come to the HEA's attention.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is clear and the HEA's representatives have been clear, upfront and blunt about it. My question is when the board of the HEA became aware of it. Dr. Love says it did not until the WIT report.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Will Dr. Love elaborate on that? He did the report on UL and Kildare-Wicklow.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: No, the HEA did that report.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I am sorry.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Did the HEA not do Kildare and Wicklow also?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Dr. Love for releasing his resignation letter. I know it is difficult and I do not intend to ask a single personal question. I wish him the best of luck in his next job or in whatever he chooses to do. I also thank him for his frankness every time he came before us. All the reasons Dr. Love gave for his resignation concern me. Will he clarify what he meant by the dominance of...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I agree with Dr. Love on that point, as I think we all would. All the governance procedures are in place to avoid these types of investigations. We agree with Dr. Love and we see the gaps every time the organisations come before us. It is particularly shocking to see it in the third level sector, which is one of the most privileged sectors, where there should not be any difficulties. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That happens because there are difficulties.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The manner in which Dr. Love has described it in his letter, however, is different. He is clarifying that here, but the governance should be dominant in the sense that it should work.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Dr. Love says it is dominant in that it does not work.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: On Kildare-Wicklow ETB, and this is directed to Mr. Ó Foghlú, a direction was sent by the Department. How many directions have been sent by the Department to organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Just once.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: In the follow-up to that, a period of two weeks was given for a reply if there were any comments to be made. Was that reply given within two weeks?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. I will finish because it is late and we have been here since 9 o'clock, but I would love to continue discussing education here. I would like to discuss Springboard and the fact that it has dropped significantly from €21 million, and to ask why. If the Chair lets me ask that, I will certainly ask it. There are many other interesting items here that one should look at to see if...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: In the 2017 accounts for higher education, funding has fallen from €21 million to €14.8 million.