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- 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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Neither does the HEA. We heard that previously. Mr. Ó Foghlú and his Department say more or less the same. It is incredible that, according to today's opening statements, while everyone was shocked, it was not the speaker's fault, but that of the "man over there". Everyone pointed the finger at everyone else. Mr. Fennell and his college should have taken greater care but, in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I heard all of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Centralised procurement guidelines? I can point to audits of instances when centralised procurement guidelines by large State agencies have been ignored, costing the State a fortune. Mr. Burke's Department does not seem to have the muscle necessary to ensure that procurement processes are in place and adhered to. This is the issue for each of the witnesses. They might believe that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Did anyone question Arthur Cox about the €39,000 charge?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I do not know what it was for.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Why did the college not tell the investigation that it had a room that could be used?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Oh dear. The college paid Arthur Cox €39,673. Did the college question it about value for money, its costs or its time? Did the college push Arthur Cox to the limit to achieve value for money for the taxpayer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Who are the internal auditors?