Results 29,721-29,740 of 33,115 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Have certain people declared conflicts of interest and opted out in respect of the two companies that were mentioned or the other one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The impact of the reduction in staff has arisen in Galway. A reduction in staff obviously impacts differently on different courses. Business courses have less staff and more students. Presumably, engineering is more hands-on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is it not correct that Dundalk Institute of Technology is reducing engineering?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I heard Ms Campbell say this and that it would be brought up straight through to Level 8.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Has Dundalk Institute of Technology had feedback from the companies where its graduates were placed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: All of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was in that context that I raised it today. It seems that Dundalk has gone a step further. I will keep an open mind.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Rather than going into this with the witnesses present, I suggest we proceed with the meeting and come back to this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Later today.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am going to give Professor Barry a break for a moment and address my question back to Mr. Mannion on something I raised this morning about Dundalk Institute of Technology. I have been thinking about that the matter concerning the Public Appointments Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Then Mr. Mannion mentioned the Office of Government Procurement. Is that what he said?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Does that mean tendering out?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Mannion try to make it clearer for me? It was the Public Appointments Service up until now. I went through it myself in a different life. This has been changed to the office of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How does the Department of Education and Skills tender for a president?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: So the Department would tender for a company? Am I being deliberately-----
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have serious concerns about that but have not had enough time to think about it. A move is being made from the Public Appointments to a private recruitment process where the Department tenders for a recruitment company to provide a president-----
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is a company or a single individual being used? I am conscious that there was an article in The Irish Timeson a new company that has sprung up and note Ruairí Quinn is in the photograph. The company is called EduCo. Mr. McCarthy was in the middle of explaining it to me, but I was trying to explain where I was coming from. I see a privatisation agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is what I am concerned about - contracting out. Five of my ten minutes have been used up and Mr. Mannion is to come back to me so we can follow it up separately. While I am raising my serious concerns about that, I will go no further now as I have not had time to reflect on the matter. It certainly seems to be a privatisation route for a college that has been left without a president...
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have seen that being used to justify not having an Irish language requirement for the president of NUI Galway. I have a difficulty there but it is for a different forum. Sin lá eile. There is so much to address here. How much time have I left, five or six minutes?