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- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: That case will cost €45,000 plus VAT. There have been two cases. How does GMIT resolve other issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: In the context of those cases, have any senior executive been lost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I am not speaking of those cases. This is a separate question. Did GMIT lose two senior executives?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Did the senior executive who left leave with special pay? What happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: The college lost one person at executive level.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: The person was put elsewhere. Did that happen once?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Not twice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Who set the terms of reference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Did GMIT consult the Higher Education Authority or the Department of Education and Skills on the cost of these investigations so that the figures could be compared?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Did Mr. Fennell consider questioning the HEA or the Department of Education and Skills on their experience?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I understand that Mr. Boland did not know about this until 2013, is that so?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Did Mr. Ó Foghlú have any knowledge of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: There were reports in the media, did Mr. Fennell say there were media reports in 2010?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Were the reports in local newspapers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: In what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We can take what we have learned from this, that neither Mr. Boland nor Mr. Ó Foghlú read the local or the national newspapers. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: With a significant issue such as this and given the fact that the Higher Education Authority, HEA, and the Department of Education and Skills must be answered to, as funding from the Department via the HEA is being received by the institute, would the institute not have asked whether they had a mechanism that cost less than €1,500 per day? They - or someone else - are responsible for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: That is essentially what it has done. For a college and a college president to take that course of action is difficult to understand. Every business with that number of employees experiences some sort of difficulty. Ignoring the issue might have been the best option.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I wish to ask Mr. Burke from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform what he sees in all of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: When did Mr. Burke's Department know about them?