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Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to ask Professor O'Shea about Professor Emeritus Connell Fanning and the Keynes Centre. We do not have time to get into it, but a question was asked of UCC and Professor Fanning about the centre's output. Is it a separate institute?

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was an unanswered question in our programme. Could we have some detail of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is illegible.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will not reiterate any of the points that have been made already. Can Dr. Love say whether the HEA or the Department had sight of the whistleblowers' complaints?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The anonymous ones.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, in CIT.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I just want to know was the Department and the HEA -----

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: So they had been in the HEA's line of sight. I will return to CIT. The issues regarding DIT have been well rehearsed. I want to welcome DIT to Grangegorman. It is within a stone's throw of where I live. The campus is stunning and I wish the DIT well there. It will be a big opportunity for the inner city and for educational opportunity in our neighbourhoods, which is much needed. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Dr.Murphy about to retire?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: So Dr. Murphy is finishing his tenure. I do not know if he has availed of the opportunity to consider the cultural issue but I listened to him today and what I hear that there were 196 allegations, none of which stood up and there is nothing to see here, move on.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Dr. Murphy absolutely sure about that?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Dr. Murphy knows that the legislation is retrospective in terms of its definition of protected disclosures. Is he absolutely sure about that?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Because I am aware of a case outside of the two anonymous disclosures that I believe falls under the category of a protected disclosure.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Dr. Love wish to say something here?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: So the HEA is in receipt of a protected disclosure in respect of CIT. Can I ask the Department if it is in receipt of a protected disclosure?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you for that clarification, Mr. Gaynor. Yet, Dr. Murphy is insistent that he has had no protected disclosure. I want him to bear in mind the legislation governing and defining protected disclosures is relatively recent but it is retrospective in terms of the definitions and the protections that it affords. Does Dr. Murphy wish to revise his response to me?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Dr. Murphy is not hearing me when I say "retrospective". Forget the legislation. How many disclosures has Dr. Murphy received, these anonymous ones which he says have been comprehensively disproved?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Leave aside the anonymous disclosures. Has Dr. Murphy received any other disclosures?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: None.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that is accurate testimony. Is Cork Institute of Technology currently in litigation with any employee or former employee in respect of any complaint brought forward which could be described as a disclosure?