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- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Call it whatever.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: It does not pay anything to use the facility, versus any other training company.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: I know, and frankly that is irrelevant. My point is there is a facility, and I understand the Maritime College has a 25 year arrangement. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is a PPP with a 25 year arrangement, and the building is in pretty bad order at present I understand. I do not understand how a company that is a joint venture, and it does not matter that it is a joint venture, is using the facility and is not actually paying to use the facility.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Dr. Murphy might supply us with documentation on the profits. I want to get onto the process of what happened with regard to the report. I am particularly interested in the Department of Education and Skills and HEA. Pretty serious allegations were made. Under the licence agreement the HEA has with colleges it has the right to investigate, so what happened here? I am not happy about...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: That is no problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: What happened here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Then it went through the audit committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: The audit committee obviously went through a tender and got KPMG and hired a firm of solicitors. Some of the allegations were made about the same company that was hired to do the work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Fine. Does Mr. Brownlee believe that if this investigation were being done now he would do it any differently? Does he believe improvements could be made?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Brownlee might just answer the question. We are under time pressure. Would he have done anything differently?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Is Mr. Brownlee happy that KPMG - and I am not casting aspersions on that or any other company - went about its business and conducted this in a robust way, that evidence was taken in writing and that everything was done appropriately and investigated 100%?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: This has come back in front of the committee because we still have lots of questions. There are issues. Who set the terms of reference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: The audit committee of the college set up the terms of reference to investigate the college.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: Fine. Let me just say the following, because this is why I asked about any lessons. The audit committee of the college, with, granted, legal advice, set up the terms of reference for the investigation into the college. Is that not bananas? If Mr. Brownlee cannot see that, I am sorry but there is something wrong. This is just insane.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is like any company being told to go off, take legal advice, set up its own terms of reference and, if it finds out it did anything wrong, come back and say so. That is crazy stuff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Alan Kelly: The whole foundation of the investigation falls if the terms of reference are not robust enough, but the HEA just accepted them.