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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. The witnesses will come back to us on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I have two other matters. One is the practical matter of student accommodation. It is great to hear that UCC is doing it on a cost basis. It rings bells in my head for NUI Galway because there was a protest recently over a huge increase. UCC has 1,500 beds directly under its control.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: What is the student population?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: It is 20,000. The college has 1,500 beds with a proposal to get another 500 in the next few years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is that the college's maximum plan for student accommodation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: It seems to be a fundamental part. One of the overall aims of the HEA, in addition to monitoring and ensuring policies are in place, is access to education. It is practically impossible to get access to universities if there is no accommodation. In Galway we are utterly reliant on the market, which is out of control.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: There is just one other thing, IMERC, that I want to come back to and that is me finished.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That lack of accommodation will make it impossible to have access to university for everybody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The HEA did an analysis in 2015, so there is a completed study available.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is fed into-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that. I know from Galway that we are actively adding to the crisis in the rental sector with the student population we have. Those students are in desperate accommodation and desperate situations. There has been no proactive programme in that regard. It has been obvious to everybody for the past ten years that we were going to be in crisis. However, I welcome what has been...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Just a minute, Dr. O'Connor. I accept that the three institutions were not damned in this report. What was set up with the full co-operation of the three institutions was this institution. This institution is the subject of a damning report by a panel of international experts. We have all this glossy stuff telling us about wonderful new governance. Dr. O'Connor accepts it is damning. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: It happened following significant pressure from various good people who said this is not working and went out on a limb at great cost to their professional and personal lives. I am not exaggerating here, am I, in respect of the people who came forward and suffered and tried to bring this to the establishment's attention? It is difficult to have confidence. I believe in the public service....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom é sin a chreidiúint ach tá deachrachtaí agam mar tharla sé seo agus bhí CIT páirteach san rud an t-am uilig agus an saghas bileog seo ag cur in iúl go bhfuil rud nua ag tarlú nuair nach raibh aon rud nua ag tarlú. Sean rud, cur i gcéill agus easpa monatóireachta atá i gceist.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: When was it ultimately dissolved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: What came in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I know that. When was it actually dissolved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: In December 2016 it was a non-entity. And the staff from it were redeployed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I am not going to discuss staff issues but I understand that process was not clearcut either. I will leave that for a separate forum.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I think we should finish with the Departments before us and then deal with whatever issues we decide. I do not think we should do business this way.