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- 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?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: They have not done that and they are indicating that there are problems for them in doing that. A separate stream of funding is going into these universities from the State funding and anything else raised in respect of intellectual property. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I asked those questions because as a politician I have to have my statement in by the end of this week. No excuse will be accepted. I must hand it in to show what I did with the money I received. I had to do it in a previous life in respect of value added tax, VAT. We got letters very quickly to take us to court if we did not do it, and rightly so. Third level institutions are shouting...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is the Galway Mayo Institute. There are two institutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Which of the campuses is in trouble?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: In Galway city.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Brownlee has acknowledged that a serious problem has arisen from lack of core funding and the numbers of students going up. He is not telling me which campus today. He is taking it as an overall problem. I understand that Mayo is in serious trouble and that the number of courses has been reduced to a minimum and indeed one course has been cut this year in mid-stream. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have difficulty with that kind of accountability. Mr. Brownlee should be able to tell me what is the position in Mayo. It affects students' lives and families. I understand that courses have been reduced to a minimum. Is that correct or not or does Mr. Brownlee not know?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is the HEA happy with that sustainable plan? Has it examined it? Does it have oversight?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When will it be ready? When will the HEA get sight of that sustainable plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Does the HEA not know if there is a deadline for the plan? This is integral to Galway. It has a proud history of providing a different type of education which the HEA is undermining now by going forward to universities and ignoring why they were set up but that is for another day. That is just my comment. It has a proud tradition of looking after people. The HEA is not able to tell me...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Brownlee is telling me the sustainable plan will be out in a few months.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is important to repeat, given the very bad headlines over the past number of years, that there are serious issues concerning the management of GMIT but not surrounding the lecturers or students. I would have expected the witnesses to tell me when the review will be complete but they have not told me there is a date when the plan will be published.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is on ongoing saga with GMIT in Galway and in Mayo.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Will there be a report, going back to what the witness said originally, in a few months' time? Will there be a written report?