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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I will finish up. My last question is on conflict of interest. The Quigley report from 2013 identified very serious issues that were not just financial problems, some of which I can pick at random. This might not be fair but tell me if I am being unfair. Financial reporting by WIT management to the governing body was inadequate. Two people were employed by a company, they were still...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: It was not precisely. Professor Donnelly did not come in and say this was serious and that these were practices that should not have happened. I did not hear Professor Donnelly saying that. If somebody is employed by a company, paid by the Waterford Institute of Technology and the money not recouped, then this is serious.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have read the report. I am not going back for the sake of going back. This report and the recommendations around the problems with the companies has been given as a reason or an explanation to the Comptroller and Auditor General for the delay in accounts. That is the difficulty.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Waterford Institute of Technology was forced to. A report had to be done in order for the Waterford Institute of Technology to embrace it. In 2017 it is still being implemented. These companies-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: These companies should not have happened in that manner.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Does Professor Donnelly believe that he has any conflict of interest in relation to his job?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: No not these companies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: So Professor Donnelly has complied with all-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have asked this of every single-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Certainly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have a difficulty now. I was very patient and listened to the long answer from Professor Donnelly justifying the position and telling us that it created jobs. Now, when we ask for certain commercial-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have a number of practical questions. However, I could not but comment that I am really impressed with the gender representation, as one would forget easily that 52% of the population are women. Is a lack of gender balance generally a problem in the university sector?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: How many are in the senior leadership team?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: The HEA has done a report that not just morally but on a business level it makes more sense - - - - -
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: Professor Norton might agree, but the absence of gender representation is beyond endurance. If it makes sense on a moral level and more importantly for the leaders in industry on a business level, what plan has been put in place to address gender issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: What plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I think there was a reference to the number of staff in the opening statement. There are 20,000 students and a staff of 2,200. There are 1,780 full-time equivalents and approximately 400 to 500 members of the staff are not full-time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: What percentage of those are women?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I would like the figure now, please. Would I be fair in drawing the conclusion that it was predominantly female or would I be wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017) Catherine Connolly: I will revert to the total, but I am speaking about the part-time numbers now.