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- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does Dr. Thorn propose to speak to the whistleblowers?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will this process act as a break in any other processes such as the kind of issues I raised with Professor Fitzgerald earlier, where there might be a disciplinary matter that needs to be attended to?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Will Dr. Thorn be reporting to Dr. Love?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is important that we have an understanding as to what happens to that report then. Typically, this committee ends up dealing retrospectively with a mess and this is one hell of a mess in Limerick. It is important that Dr. Thorn is present and that we can get ahead of this issue. In addition to the Department and HEA, I would like Dr. Thorn to report back here also. Is that possible? Is...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that acceptable from the Department's point of view because we will have to see what it comes up with?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Professor Fitzgerald is a fresh pair legs for this task. The objective is to definitively deal with everything from start to finish, including the fact that two employees are currently on extended suspensions.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Has Professor Fitzgerald met the whistleblowers?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Professor Fitzgerald will appreciate there is a huge reluctance among people within the university to come forward.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I invite Dr. Thorn to confirm whether he will interview and speak to Professor Don Barry, former president of the University of Limerick, as part of his investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Dr. Thorn. He is examining many dimensions and it is a substantial job of work that he has undertaken. What qualifies him to investigate allegations of fraud, which is what this amounts to in respect of bogus expenses claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I recognise that.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: There will be matters that are technical in nature and potentially relate to fraudulent claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Has that been factored into the HEA's plans?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Provide technical expertise. In other words, Dr. Thorn will not draft a report that shows conspicuous absences within his investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to ask Professor O'Shea about Professor Emeritus Connell Fanning and the Keynes Centre. We do not have time to get into it, but a question was asked of UCC and Professor Fanning about the centre's output. Is it a separate institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was an unanswered question in our programme. Could we have some detail of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is illegible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will not reiterate any of the points that have been made already. Can Dr. Love say whether the HEA or the Department had sight of the whistleblowers' complaints?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The anonymous ones.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, in CIT.