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- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: This is a very specific point. In 2014, some €17.5 million was outstanding at that stage from 2011. Has that €17.5 million been paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Assurances are one thing; the Comptroller and Auditor General showing us that money is outstanding from 2011 is another thing. I do not want assurance. I want to be told if it has been paid over. When was that specific €17.5 million paid over? Has the €67.5 million from the 2014 accounts also come to the university or is the Comptroller and Auditor General-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that, but the money is owed. I know it is a charity but it is coming from the foundation for projects. This was 2014, which is three years later. How does NUIG manage without money? It does projects and then the money comes, and it does not take the money that is due.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I can state precisely.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Actually the Comptroller and Auditor General said it had been outstanding for three years at that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It €57.6 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I did not ask about-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I did not ask about anything recent. I asked about what is here in this paragraph. In 2014, it had been due since 2011. I mentioned agency staff. There is a belief on the ground that consultants are being used to an excessive degree in NUIG. Private consultants are being brought in for different things, including the law faculty. I have gleaned this from the local newspaper. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am reading from a paper.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I hope Dr. Browne does. Some €180,000 for 22 months' work was paid to a private company, Results Through People Limited, for professional services.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: For €143,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is another thing to check. I will finish up on the gender issue. Does NUIG have part-time teaching assistant posts?
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay because I asked another institute and it did not have any. NUIG has a part-time teaching assistant. Is that what it is called?
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is simply "Yes" or "No". As I have said already, we have been inundated with discontent regarding the gender issue. Is there a role or a position called a "part-time teaching assistant"?
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure what the frustration is about.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have no suggestion.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I would be reassured if Dr. Browne was not so jumpy about it and told us. He should have figures here given the scandal that existed with gender inequality. I did not want to use that word but what has gone on in NUIG with gender inequality is an absolute scandal. That is my opinion.
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I resisted saying it. I would have preferred if Dr. Browne had said, "Yes, we accept that. We put our hands up. There has been a case. There are five other cases. I do not know how many. We're learning from that. This is what we've done." I do not know what NUIG is paying agency staff. I do not know how many part-time positions there are and I do not know how many women are in those...
- Public Accounts Committee: National University of Ireland Galway: Financial Statement 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are there lecturer positions that do not include research? Are lecturers employed strictly as lecturers who do not carry out research?