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- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Does Mr. Fennell know what date they started working on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Did they start working from that point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: When GMIT went back to Professor Redmond to say that Mr. Madden was gone and GMIT was not happy with the report, was it merely for her to finish the report or was it to go back over the issues that GMIT was not happy with in Mr. Madden's report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I would not say GMIT had "rubbished" Mr. Madden's report at this stage, but it was not fit for purpose.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Just the president?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Was this discussed with any board members?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: To Mr. Madden's report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: No. Did those same people see Mr. Madden's report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Is there no chance that a report came into the president's office and he was only one who saw it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Had he got second advice from anyone else or had it run by anyone else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: But no one else in the institute of technology had seen it at that stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Therefore, the president made the decision that it did not comply with the terms of reference and he was sending it back. Some €217,000 later, he was not happy with it. They can come back to him if they want but if they do not, the institute will keep going on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: After several years, the money involved is very substantial, yet one man saw the report and did not like certain elements of it, although it was probably correct in its terms of reference, and did not consult anyone else on the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: He did not consult anyone else in the institution, either the board or the governing body. Was the Higher Education Authority consulted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Would that not be considered unusual?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: After that process, how long did it take Professor Redmond to complete her report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: At this stage, how long had it been since Ed Madden left?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: It was, therefore, a number of months later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: The report was on the joint work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Did Mr. Madden see a copy of Professor Redmond's report based on their joint work?