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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 18 September 2013 and with reference to a request to publish the Farrell Grant Sparks, FGS, report of 2009 that was published in redacted form on 16 April 2014, if she will clarify that Bus Éireann does not make a profit from the school transport scheme, considering that the FGS report...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to my Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 18 September 2013 and with reference to her statement regarding a signed confidentiality agreement, if she will provide the date Farrell Grant Sparks, FGS, commenced work on redactions, the date it completed its work on reaching an agreement with Bus Éireann and on making agreed redactions...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (15 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: 563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a private rental tenant who has been in a tenancy for more than 12 months and who has not had a rent review since 2014 will be subject to a rent review in 2016, subject to the period between rent reviews being no less than 24 months. [44848/15]
- 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 like the Pope.
- 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 looking at the article now. It reported how Professor Byrne was on the on the back foot and how the then Minister for Education, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, and the then Department Secretary General, Ms Brigid McManus, were briefed on the situation. In their judgment, Professor Byrne had to go. The article says:Said one senior figure: “The idea of Byrne or his crew being...
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: But he was digging in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Deputy Deasy. I wish to let Mr. Boland know, sub judiceor not, that Professor Kieran Byrne was in contact with me and he is quite categoric that at the meeting in question Mr. Boland looked for his head. Professor Byrne is happy for me to place that on public record. I was not at the meeting, Mr. Boland was there and emphatically denies this account. What was the nature of Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Boland had no discussion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: There was no discussion? The proverbial had hit the fan and Mr. Boland had no discussion with the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- 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?