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- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good. I will finish off with a number of practical questions. There is a consultation process to look at where the technology colleges are going. Has there been feedback from the companies where the graduates have gone in Galway and elsewhere? Has there been written or verbal feedback from the company? The witnesses talk about stakeholders in the consultation process.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are the witnesses aware that the process of consultation includes getting feedback from the companies to which the graduates have gone?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is something I am raising because I believe it has not happened. I believe the companies have been very happy with the graduates that have come from GMIT and those courses are being undermined and underfunded and huge difficulties are being created for something that is theoretical. Nobody is actually looking at the practical situation on the ground. I will ask some final questions on...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Then we had a facilitator come in on top of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How much did the facilitator cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Despite her best efforts, it was not resolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is this a situation in which we had whistleblowers coming forward to indicate there were problems with travel claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is part of it. A number of whistleblowers came forward in good faith.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: We had this report and the facilitator and nothing has been resolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The whistleblowers have raised issues. Those issues were substantiated. The issues raised were about claims and not the actual money paid out because the money was caught in time. The issues raised in terms of claims being made for travel were substantiated.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where are those whistleblowers now? Are they still in the system? Were they rewarded or punished? Did they leave?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Two of the whistleblowers have been suspended.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will come back to that. The witness might not know this because it refers to the consolidated report and financial statements for Limerick on page 6. The university paid a former service provider €209,000 in connection with the termination of its appointment to the university. Are the witnesses aware of that or will I leave the question for witnesses from Limerick?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will leave it for Limerick.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What publication or published report?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My question was on published recommendations or a published report.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: First, educational procurement services, EPSs, are part of the research grants. What are educational procurement services?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Second, capital investment is extremely low at approximately 4%, which is a point I meant to make. On capital, we have an extraordinary situation in Galway where a hotel remained derelict for a very long time. It would have been ideal accommodation for the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT. It was never bought. It has been bought now. That was an absolute scandal. A building...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No. My question is what the witnesses have carried out as a result of what the Waterford case taught them? Have they looked at all the other third level colleges in the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is Dr. Love happy that this is not happening in Mayo, Galway, Dundalk, Limerick or Cork?