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- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There seems to be an extraordinary level of professional fees. Would they tend to be legal actions, PR, or accounting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: To put on record for the HEA, I agree entirely with Deputy Kelly. It was wholly inappropriate for somebody to allege, anonymously or not, and without prejudice to its validity or not, that the fox had attacked the henhouse and to allow the fox to set the terms of reference for the investigation into the alleged incident.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: That is Dr. Love's determination of it. The Committee of Public Accounts received a doctored version of the report to protect people's identities, which, to my mind, seemed to have an extraordinary level of redactions. The Comptroller and Auditor General saw it and he was satisfied. That is fine and is his prerogative. The committee cannot be satisfied, without prejudice to anybody, as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I cannot test that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: It is something I would like to test. Were there allegations against Dr. Brendan Murphy and Mr. Paul Gallagher, for example? The witness should not answer that. If there was, how could they oversee and be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Fine. If they were implicated, how could they be party to that and concurrently be heads of an organisation within which the terms of reference were set? There is an inherent governance problem there. Maybe legislative change is needed to ensure that when these types of things happen, they can be dealt with. Representatives of the Garda have been attending this committee this week. I am...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I disagree with the witness on that point - approved by the HEA. It is a box-ticking exercise. What is the HEA doing? Why is it the licensing authority and funder? This is what it is there for. It protects my interests as one of the people contributing €37 million to this institution, and I have a problem with that €37 million being given over by the HEA saying it looked at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I know nothing about it because I have not seen the internally set terms of reference or the full report because it is heavily redacted to protect people who may have been implicated. That is not transparent or robust by any objective analysis. How could it be robust, regardless of and without prejudice to the outcome?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Just to move on------
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: They did. I am criticising them, not the witness specifically, although he does not escape all criticism. Those bodies should not have accepted that. It was inappropriate governance for them to accept a set of guidelines set by the witness's organisation. People, however innocent they may be, who were potentially implicated by a whistleblower's report were party, albeit with a couple of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Prior to the witness's portrait being painted, was it the practice to get students from the art college to paint portraits of the president of the institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Never?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Perhaps that might be checked. My information is that it was. Was it always put out to tender for artists to indicate their interest in painting the portrait?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The artist was chosen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: And the artist would send in a bill and an invoice which would be paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Was the artist a Mr. Magee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Mick O'Dea. Apologies. I looked at his website and saw some good stuff. It costs around €4,000 apiece. Why was the bill for the portrait €22,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Two portraits were painted?