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- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I just want to know was the Department and the HEA -----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So they had been in the HEA's line of sight. I will return to CIT. The issues regarding DIT have been well rehearsed. I want to welcome DIT to Grangegorman. It is within a stone's throw of where I live. The campus is stunning and I wish the DIT well there. It will be a big opportunity for the inner city and for educational opportunity in our neighbourhoods, which is much needed. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Dr.Murphy about to retire?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Dr. Murphy is finishing his tenure. I do not know if he has availed of the opportunity to consider the cultural issue but I listened to him today and what I hear that there were 196 allegations, none of which stood up and there is nothing to see here, move on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Dr. Murphy absolutely sure about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Dr. Murphy knows that the legislation is retrospective in terms of its definition of protected disclosures. Is he absolutely sure about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Because I am aware of a case outside of the two anonymous disclosures that I believe falls under the category of a protected disclosure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does Dr. Love wish to say something here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So the HEA is in receipt of a protected disclosure in respect of CIT. Can I ask the Department if it is in receipt of a protected disclosure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you for that clarification, Mr. Gaynor. Yet, Dr. Murphy is insistent that he has had no protected disclosure. I want him to bear in mind the legislation governing and defining protected disclosures is relatively recent but it is retrospective in terms of the definitions and the protections that it affords. Does Dr. Murphy wish to revise his response to me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Dr. Murphy is not hearing me when I say "retrospective". Forget the legislation. How many disclosures has Dr. Murphy received, these anonymous ones which he says have been comprehensively disproved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Leave aside the anonymous disclosures. Has Dr. Murphy received any other disclosures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: None.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that is accurate testimony. Is Cork Institute of Technology currently in litigation with any employee or former employee in respect of any complaint brought forward which could be described as a disclosure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I believe they could be. The one that I am thinking of relates to, I imagine, the same information which has landed with the Department, and now with the HEA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We could do cat and mouse here all day. I have no interest in doing that. There is another disclosure. It is not new. It is known to Dr. Murphy. The matters contained therein are very serious. I am not in a position to adjudicate as to the accuracy of any of these matters or to verify them. I am not casting myself in that role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: When the HEA has done its due diligence, it will discover that CIT is very well aware of the situation. I say that as a word to the wise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine. I thank Dr. Love. My point is made. There is no doubt we will have to return to CIT. We only had a very cursory look at it back in December 2015. There is no doubt in my mind, for all the reasons that other members have set out, that we need to come back and do a comprehensive piece of work. Dr. Murphy will be enjoying his retirement at that stage, but I hope he will come...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would hope that he would make himself available. May I just ask Dr. Murphy about KPMG and Arthur Cox? Who from KPMG was involved? Is there an office in Cork or did they come from Limerick?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: What about Arthur Cox? Likewise, I assume it has a fairly big presence. Does it have a Cork office?