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Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Will Dr. Wall put that question to UL and come back to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Please come back to me with a note on that. I would love to know its explanation for why that happened in a three-day period and why members of the governance board were brought in that morning and faced with having to make a decision by that evening. Obviously I was not sitting at that meeting myself - it would be an interesting place to be a fly on the wall - but I am reliably informed...

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I have one or two other questions on the financial statements from 2019, specifically board members using expenses. There were two interesting elements. One is that a board member is based in the US. Would that member attend board meetings?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: That person is still on the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: What kind of expertise does the member have?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: That level of experience was not in the country or Europe?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: There is one based in Britain.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Is that the one that Dr. Wall was referring to in the EU?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Formerly of the European Union, obviously, with Brexit. What would the expenses typically be? There is €17,274.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: That is for flights back and forward.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: On the expenses incurred by the universities, while we do not expect the HEA to micromanage, we would expect that where clear red flags are shown that it would intervene, question, take note of and examine what was happening. Moving to the HEA itself, the former chief executive had a benefit-in-kind of €9,270 paid on a car for a previous CEO of the HEA. Did the HEA provide a car on...

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Does the HEA do that now?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Okay, I thank Dr. Wall for clarifying that. On staff contracts, the HEA told the committee in correspondence that the total staffing in the universities is 17,304 staff, of whom 11,191 are permanent and 6,102 are temporary. I was surprised by the figure. We are not dealing with a fast-foot outlet or temporary stalls for Christmas. We are dealing with third level institutions. If the HEA...

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank Dr. Wall. I thank the witnesses for joining the committee and the staff at the HEA for the work involved in preparing for the meeting and the information provided to the committee. As always I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for attending and for assisting the committee in preparation today. Is it agreed to request the clerk to seek any follow-up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Some Deputies are on the working group on Standing Orders. We had hoped to meet online at 12 noon.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I understand that the clerk sent the notice out for 12 noon.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: No, that is not necessary. I can see that the Deputy is in the Lough Gill suite in Leinster House.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I know but the Deputy might take his time for half an hour, if he can. We would like to have him here for the meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated total cost and capital being made available for the construction of a school (details supplied). [34715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the expected beginning and completion of construction work at a school (details supplied). [34714/21]