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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We need to check a number of issues in the report. Deputy McDonald has undertaken to do some work regarding the disclosure made to her. We agree to take the suggestion to the Central Bank, request the report mentioned and include the transcript of this part of the meeting and request a response. It is a starting point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We have agreed to do that and to seek the report. On a point of clarification, if the Committee of Public Accounts were to suggest that Mr. McCarthy carry out a value-for-money or governance audit, would the report come before us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: If a value-for-money matter was contained in the documentation Deputy McDonald has been given, a value-for-money audit could be suggested to Mr. McCarthy and that report would come before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We have agreed what to do with this and will move on. If there is no other business, we will ask the witnesses to attend to deal with today's matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile telephones as they interfere with the quality of the sound transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence in relation...
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: I ask Mr. Tom Boland of the Higher Education Authority to introduce his officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: I ask Professor Willie Donnelly of Waterford Institute of Technology to introduce his officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: I ask Dr. Brendan Murphy of Cork Institute of Technology to introduce his officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. John Burke of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is also in attendance. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Thank you, Dr. Murphy. Can we publish all those statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: If I may clarify a matter, when did the High Court action commence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: It was a long time ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: On 10 October 2013, Mr. Boland commented on the meeting before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Boland gave an explanation, which is in the transcript, in which he made reference to the fact that he had a meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: In 2013, Mr. Boland stated:My concern was for the reputation of Waterford, given all the other things that were happening. I had a fairly lengthy meeting with the then president and he was adamant - I had no way of knowing otherwise - that he had no case to answer and that all of the expenditure was entirely appropriate. That is the basis on which we left our conversation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Boland did not offer any explanation regarding matters that were sub judiceor any other legal matter at the meeting in question. Is that the meeting to which Deputy McDonald referred?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Was that meeting recorded?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Is Mr. Boland sure of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: There was a report in The Irish Timesfrom May 2011.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: The report to which Deputy McDonald refers, and which was prepared in response to a request from the chief executive of the Higher Education Authority, Mr. Tom Boland, is dated 17 May 2011. Does Mr. Boland recall making that request?