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- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Ms Sheridan can answer the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: I wish to return to this report, because I have been listening to how it is being described, and the timing of it. I understand that there is correspondence, as Mr. Ó Foghlú said, to clarify certain matters of expenditure. The report here is a report to the HEA requested by the HEA. It was prepared in response to a request from Mr. Boland and it refers to the recent media...
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Yes, it is. However, this is a report Mr. Boland requested from Waterford Institute of Technology regarding the expenditure incurred by the office of the president. If Mr. Boland requested the report - I understand it was some years ago - it did have an impact on how all of these matters were viewed. If Mr. Boland then received the report, what actually happened with it within the Higher...
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: No, it is an answer to Mr. Boland’s request.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Surely Mr Boland must have read the report
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Boland made a statement a short while ago about the extravagance of the spend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: However, Mr Boland failed to enter into the record what was in this report. I am just reminding Mr Boland of that fact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Even though Mr Boland asked for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: I call on Deputy Deasy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: In 2013, Mr. Boland stated:My concern was for the reputation of Waterford, given all the other things that were happening. I had a fairly lengthy meeting with the then president and he was adamant - I had no way of knowing otherwise - that he had no case to answer and that all of the expenditure was entirely appropriate. That is the basis on which we left our conversation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Boland did not offer any explanation regarding matters that were sub judiceor any other legal matter at the meeting in question. Is that the meeting to which Deputy McDonald referred?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Was that meeting recorded?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Is Mr. Boland sure of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: There was a report in The Irish Timesfrom May 2011.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: The report to which Deputy McDonald refers, and which was prepared in response to a request from the chief executive of the Higher Education Authority, Mr. Tom Boland, is dated 17 May 2011. Does Mr. Boland recall making that request?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: But Mr. Boland does not remember it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Does Mr. Boland remember receiving the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: They are very significant things that happened, regardless of whether it was four years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: Information has been placed on the record of this committee to which this also refers but which was not put before us. Mr. Boland himself referred to it on 4 October 2012 when he outlined what he asked of WIT on 17 May 2011. To go back to a comment made by Deputy Deasy regarding Mr. Byrne, the report stated, “At no stage has Deloitte or the governing body suggested any expenditure...
- Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015) John McGuinness: If I may clarify a matter, when did the High Court action commence?