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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I have three quick questions. It might be a timing issue but the accounts include a figure of €28 million for academic fees received in advance. The accounts go to the end of September. Who pays in advance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: That would be quite a high amount of people paying so much.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Would a significant proportion of that be international students? Because I do not think SUSI would pay -----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: So they could be a couple of months in advance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is new to me. How much does the university pay out on the student assistances fund and the hardship fund? If the witnesses do not have the details here, they could send us a note on how many applications were received and how much was paid out, and how many did not get it. As Deputies, we regularly meet families who run into financial difficulties and there is the cost of rent going...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am asking specifically on the hardship fund, because these are issues that we as Deputies encounter all the time. Finally, a number of years ago there was serious flooding in Cork. There was a dam upstream and major litigation with the ESB. There was some damage to the university. I visited the university myself some years ago along with my then colleagues on the environment...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: So the university was fully covered.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Did that affect the university's premium in subsequent years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Who can explain about insurance? Does this cover all the universities or all third level?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: There is group purchasing. Who handles that for third level institutions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: No. Is there a representative from each college on a steering committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McSweeney explain about the IUA?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: How, when the overall quote is supplied, how is the split worked out between what UCC should pay versus another university?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to hear the public sector is combining its purchasing power. The witnesses might send us a note on that. What is the name of that group that was mentioned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is it audited?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Could we be given a range of the services covered by the IUA? There is insurance, what about legal fees?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: What other services are jointly procured?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Do those prevent the universities co-operating as a group to get group purchasing power or does that framework assist it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have covered insurance because I asked about flooding and I had not been aware of this. I am pleased to hear it is there. The question I am asking is whether there are other services which are being tendered for collectively through the IUA. If the witnesses do not know, they can send us a note.