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- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, it was a his - not unusually. Did the witness discuss the matter with Ms Brigid McManus?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: So neither the Minister of the day nor the Secretary General of the Department had a conversation with Mr. Boland, to his recollection, about WIT or specifically about Professor Kieran Byrne?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Boland keep a diary? He is a very busy man and is bound to keep a diary and a sketch of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: -----and notes of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Was this situation a big deal was it not? There was a bit of a media frenzy around it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It read really badly and there was the potential reputational damage and so on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I am a somewhat surprised, therefore, that Mr. Boland's memory is not a little bit sharper regarding an exchange, for example, with the Secretary General of a Government Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, they certainly have but this matter is still live and there is a court action pending.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Did Mr. Boland have absolutely no authority to seek Professor Byrne's resignation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: None whatsoever? It would have been absolutely inappropriate and wrong for Mr. Boland to look for Professor Byrne's resignation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Would Mr. Boland say that it would be a resigning matter for him if had he sought Professor Byrne's resignation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask that. Would it be a resigning matter for the head of the HEA if he or she had, without authorisation and acting entirely outside of his or her powers, sought the resignation of Professor Kieran Byrne at that meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It would be more than inappropriate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It would be have been completely and utterly unacceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes. I do not propose that we rehash every detail of that because we have given it extensive consideration previously. Is Professor Donnelly familiar with a report from Waterford Institute of Technology to the Higher Education Authority dated 3 June 2011?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: To the best of my knowledge, this report was not referred to or brought to the attention of the committee. I am open to correction but having trawled the records, I do not believe that is the case. Will Professor Donnelly or Mr. Boland offer an explanation as to why the report was not brought to the committee's attention. I will cut to the chase and explain the reason it interests me....
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Can Mr. Boland answer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: The report was made to Mr. Boland's organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I would like Mr. Boland to comment first on the reason the committee did not receive the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It is to the Higher Education Authority. In fact, it was prepared at Mr. Boland's request. It states that it was prepared in response to a request from the chief executive of the Higher Education Authority, Mr. Tom Boland, and is dated 17 May 2011.