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Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is robust. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have made a request of the Comptroller and Auditor General to carry out an investigation in this area.

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: My final point is on whistleblowers. In May 2014, Seán Ó Foghlú told us that he had told the colleges to sort out whistleblowing matters prior to July 2014. We passed the protected disclosures legislation, which was rather novel. I want Dr. Browne to briefly outline his experience of protected disclosures and how they have been managed. Did Dr. Browne sort out any...

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Please do.

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the HEA and the Department confirm that is the case?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am asking them to do so.

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: What protocols or procedures does the college have for whistleblowers or protected disclosures? Is there a confidential recipient?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: When did that come into effect?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That means it was in 2014. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Have any protected disclosures been made since that has been instituted?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How many?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How has that been dealt with?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did it relate to anything that we should be made aware of? Was there any impropriety?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will ask for the HEA to comment. Was it an employee of the university?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the person still an employee of the university?

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sprioc eile atá i gceist agamsa. The language thing is very important for children who are educated through Irish.

Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wan to ask without reopening the whole gender issue. Can the delegation map out its staff, academic and otherwise, at all levels? Can we have the figures of where mná na hÉireann feature in sprioc na hOllscoile at the moment?

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Taoiseach knows, the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services is meeting to discuss what was supposed to be its final draft report on the future of water services. The recommendations of that report represented a very significant victory for all those who have opposed domestic water charges and the privatisation agenda at the heart of the Government's water...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I respectfully suggest it is in fact the Taoiseach and the Government that needs to allow the committee to get on with its work. The Taoiseach is fully aware that his Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, has intervened in a most inappropriate and very direct way with the findings and the draft report. Today, we have round two of the plan to sabotage the committee report, spearheaded by the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me repeat for the Taoiseach what I asked originally. What the people on the streets at the weekend want to know is whether their Taoiseach is capable of listening, hearing, understanding and respecting their wishes. Today is the day he needs to make that clear. Will he respect the wishes of the people for the abolition of water charges, for the ending of the water metering programme...