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- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Its staff came from Dublin. Although it lays claim to being the real capital, Cork is quite a small city. What are the interactions between boards, boards of directors and the movers and shakers in CIT and KPMG?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is there any crossover in terms of membership of any of CIT's boards or so on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The governing body or any of the organisational apparatus.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is something we should investigate. This is not to put anyone on the defensive necessarily but it occurs to me that we live on a small island and we have a relatively small population. Once one starts getting into circles of people, people know people who know people. We, as the oversight body, have to be sure that no one allows themselves unthinkingly to be in a position of conflicted...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: We need to check that out. When Dr. Murphy was before the committee the last time, 10 December 2015, we asked questions about staff retiring and then returning to work. Interestingly, after Dr. Murphy's appearance, we received a letter from the Cork colleges branch of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI. In that letter, the information which Dr. Murphy gave to this committee was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will help Dr. Murphy. The question was put. Dr. Murphy was asked if people had retired and come back to work and he said:Up to this academic year, we did not. However, in the context of industrial action by the Teachers Union of Ireland, under which it basically instructed its members to engage in no overtime whatsoever, there have been a number of cases in which, because of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I use that by way of example of the need for a proper investigation of these matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I trust that the training was to assist the witnesses in being concise and accurate rather than in evading questions.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: With a heavy heart, he decides-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No one is asking for names.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is rubbish.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know why the Minister showed up this evening.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is absolutely farcical.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Were there other applicants?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer that question or this is pointless.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are not answers.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: You are a disgrace.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, Deputy O'Callaghan, can we even get an answer to that?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not answering the question.