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Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am coming to the end. I have read all of the documents and have heard from the previous institution and the HEA yesterday. Dundalk Institute of Technology seems to be the first institution that has come before us to tell us that it does not just have a protocol or plan but - going back to the conflict of interest and property - has a special office. I wrote it down.

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Does Dundalk Institute of Technology have a policy?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: So there is a special office or special committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: So there is a committee and an office?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: They then report back to the governing body?

Public Accounts Committee: Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Have any conflicts of interest relating to companies on campus been brought to Ms McCausland's attention? Has she had to look at anything?

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-----