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- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was there a gap between his appointment and the departure of his predecessor?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Does the HEA have enough-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The HEA has huge responsibility under a number of Acts, does it not? This has been set out for us very clearly by the Comptroller and Auditor General. It has responsibility under the Higher Education Authority Act, the Universities Act, the Institutes of Technology Act, and then there is the national strategy for higher education published in 2011. This huge responsibility has even been...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will put this in context. I do not expect Dr. Love to comment on Government policy but I do on the matter of student fees and student loans because the university and third level sector is in trouble. I see report after report and huge problems holding the system to account on the part of the HEA and the heads of the universities. In that context, the HEA has a very important role to...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: However, at this point, the HEA is not looking for additional staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Has the HEA contacted the universities that have not come forward with their financial statements - NUI Galway and another two were mentioned - to ask them why they have not done so?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My question is whether the HEA has contacted them and, if so, the answers received.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Let us take the HEA's last contact. What were the three universities with financial statements outstanding? I forget them. One was NUI Galway, which is easy for me to remember as I represent Galway.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I understood the Comptroller and Auditor General to say there were three audits outstanding, or were they just late?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are they still due?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My questions are why they are still due, what the HEA has done about it and what its last response was from these institutions, given the HEA's responsibilities, the fact that it has enough staff and the importance of learning lessons in this regard. The HEA has been in existence for 42 years. Over that time, I understand the Comptroller and Auditor General, from listening to him and...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What has the HEA been told by the three universities with financial statements outstanding?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There are so many plans here, including action plans, strategic plans and so on, one would need years to read them as well as the review of Limerick, the Mazar's review and all these things which I hope to come to. Dr. Love has said he has enough staff. The HEA has a role. Why are they late?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Why are they late?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is a legacy issue and it is complex. What about the other two?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is it a legacy issue that is complex?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is the type of openness I would like when the HEA comes in here. I would like it to set out the problems it is encountering. Statements that it is improving are not good enough. Of course, it has to improve. We all have to improve. It needs to set out the problems and say why the institutions are late. Let us take another issue not mentioned in the opening statement, namely, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: They have already done it. I am asking about the ones that have not done it.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The HEA has communicated in writing to them that it wants consolidated accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: They will appear before us. When was the last time the HEA communicated with them?