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- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I think they are different things.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There may be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is, actually.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There may be similarities between one and the other and I appreciate that. What I am asking is very simple. Is it the position of the HEA and the Department of Education and Skills that the 2012 matter was a disclosure or not?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is it because the HEA will make that judgment based on the 2017 disclosure?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that right? The HEA is deciding what happened in the past, in 2012, based on what happened in 2017. In 2017, it was clearly a disclosure because there was an Act defining it.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that not the problem?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The HEA has all this correspondence now. From what the HEA knows of it, and Mr. Ó Foghlú of the Department should feel free to come in whenever he wants here, and I am happy to give them copies of the email if they do not already have it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Who is the third party?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Who decides that? I am confused now. If I make a protected disclosure to the head of the HEA when I work there-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am the one disclosing it.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: So whose call is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. So really a protected disclosure should not be made to the head of an organisation in the first place.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: As long as we know that a discloser will be thrown under the bus, with the only recourse being the legal process.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is what it would be in practice. We have an example from before the legislation, which is 2012 in this instance, and an example from after the legislation, which is 2017. In the meantime there is a discloser out of work since 2014 and unable to get answers from anybody.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No, I am quite happy to stay with the specifics.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If we do not consider specific cases, we will always be able to take refuge in those terrible words, "culture" and "systemic failure".
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is there a healthy tension with this matter? Mr. Horgan mentioned "healthy tension" as being a good thing and I wondered if this was a matter where there might be a healthy tension.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Has Mr. Love observed it?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, that is good. Could I have a timeline on an outcome for this process? The witnesses are waiting for a report but who is doing it?