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- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: -----for his payments dating back to the time that he left the college.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: But why would the Department not work it out if he left the college and went into the employment of the HEA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: What agreement is to be made? If he left the college and went to work for the HEA-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: So he has not left the college.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I see. That is interesting. I wish to return to a matter that was raised earlier by Deputy Deasy about Dr. Byrne, the previous president. The HEA received a report back in 2011 in relation to the expenditure at the college. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I am trying to explore-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: WIT did a report to the HEA on 3 June 2011, and in that report it set out to address various matters at that time, particularly to do with what was described then as the cost centre for Dr. Byrne. Reading the report that the HEA was given, it would appear that much of what we were talking about back then did not relate to Dr. Byrne at all. It was a cost centre that was used generally and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I will not speak for him, but Deputy Deasy was trying to redress the balance in terms of that issue at the time and the fact that it was perhaps not appropriate to refer to it as Dr. Byrne's expenditure, which I think is fair, because it was said at the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: One moment. I will allow Mr. Ó Foghlú to comment in a moment. The HEA had that report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, but I am not going into that. I am just trying to work out our understanding of what happened, because a lot was said at the public hearing. We did not go back to specifically address the issues, and it is only fair that I refer to this particular report, which is in existence and went to the HEA. One of the other clarifications I am anxious to get relates to the sports centre....
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I understand that. Mr. Ó Foghlú refers to the Quigley report as if I am asking questions that I should know the answer to. All I know from the Quigley report is it said €2.9 million. I know that when the decision was being made that people were told it would cost €4 million to terminate the contract at that time. I am asking whether that is true or false and, on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. Ó Foghlú does not know what the cost is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: What is happening down there with it at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Are the buildings empty? It is used or not used?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: How long has it been empty?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Two years. Does the Department find that acceptable?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: How much has the taxpayer spent on that up to now? Then the Department closed it; at least it did not do what the Department of Justice did and tear it down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: At least there is a building there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: What concerns me is that the buildings are there, the project is completed to a particular stage. It is two years since anyone revisited that project. Buildings, by their nature, if they are not used tend to suffer from some kind of dilapidation. It will cost much more than €2.9 million. When will the decision be made to deal with this issue once and for all? There was a Diverse...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes.