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- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Fine. That is okay, but the Department is not funding for completion because it has not agreed to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I will ask the clerk to write to the president and the CEO of Diverse Campus Services, whom Mr. Boland says is still with WIT, and ask for a comprehensive explanation as to where this project is at and then to determine what money is left in their funds to complete it and what is their expectation of funding from the Department of Education. I will ask the clerk to do that with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: You are too busy looking after all the other matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I will ask the clerk to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: He is still employed. He is a staff member. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. Boland told me that. He is a staff member of WIT.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: When he became a staff member and was no longer CEO, he hardly forgot everything he did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. Boland is very helpful. That is what we will do. In terms of the use of consultants and whatever might happen in colleges, this report that you gave the committee, Mr. Ó Foghlú, was into Cork Institute of Technology. In all honesty, how do you expect us decipher all of this redacted information, page after page of it? We get complete blow-by-blow information from a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú. Can his statement be published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: How much was spent on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Boland to make his presentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: The Committee of Public Accounts gave you a completely unredacted version of the accusations and you then gave us this. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: It has been suggested that we bring in CIT and the Department again in respect of the accusations to go through them, because they have not been explained in that report. I could go through the report with you, but it is too late now and we will have to set another date for it. Anyway, I can tell you that there are more questions arising from that report than there were before the report...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I do not accept that report and the manner in which it has been given. It is an insult to the Committee of Public Accounts. While you may not have given - Mr. Mannion, have you something to say?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I do not accept it. It is so heavily redacted that it insults the Committee of Public Accounts and the work we are doing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I am just saying this, Mr. Ó Foghlú. I am going to ask - it has been agreed already anyway, although we could not do it today - representatives of CIT to come before us and explain this. I have one last question for you, Mr. Boland, and I am going to conclude the meeting then. It relates to the process with Dr. Byrne at the time. Was he invited to the HEA? What was the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: He is taking a case. Is he?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: All right. That is okay. We will not press you on that. I am going to leave it at that, gentleman. Thank you all for coming along today.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason benefit payments ceased to a person (details supplied), if this case can be reviewed. [32620/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: 71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the application will be expedited; and if supplementary welfare allowance will be paid, as the family are currently experiencing hardship. [32623/15]