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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: The report said that there is currently no defined risk strategy setting out CIT's risk appetite, risk objectives or the alignment between risk and the overall strategics plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Some of the allegations that were made at the time were to do with expenses of senior management and issues around paintings. Were all of the key individuals who were involved in the decision-making on these matters consulted directly as part of any internal examination of these issues by the institute or by KPMG? Was it the case that they went solely to higher management to seek a view or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Desktop reviews do not always give us the answers that we need. I believe that when substantial allegations are made, a desktop review is unlikely to recover anything of substance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: We will never know because it was a desktop review. We will deal presently with a separate line of questioning that I have with regard to a different institute where there was a much more extensive examination of issues, beyond desktop reviews that were previously done, which showed up issues that the other reports did not show up. Desktop reviews do not always capture the full extent of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I have two issues to put to Mr. Love, one of which we discussed while in private session. Perhaps he will respond as best he can while we are in public session. It concerns a draft report sitting with the HEA about Waterford Institute of Technology and intellectual property. The HEA furnished the committee with a more global examination of intellectual property, which we will get to at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I accept that due diligence is important, especially from a legal perspective, and that the HEA must do this. The report was due in November and the Committee of Public Accounts is still waiting for the report as we go into June. Does Mr. Love accept that a seven-month time gap is more than late? Does he see this as acceptable from the committee's perspective? We focused on this issue and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Information was provided to this committee on a variance in spend in respect of the amalgamation of institutes of technology and the technological university process. Can Dr. Love give us an overview of why there was a variance in spend among the different consortia?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: There were a number of different mergers and there were different processes at different stages. Each incurred a cost as part of the merger process and with all the associated work to transition into a technological university but there were big gaps between them in what was spent. I am trying to find out the reason for this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Where does the Waterford-Carlow merger sit in the context of the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: One of the witnesses said earlier that the technological universities were an exciting prospect. I am personally supportive of the Carlow-Waterford one, even though there are reservations and genuine concerns within the institutes. One of these is whether the technological universities will be on a par with existing universities. An example would concern the ability to borrow money and any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Will technological universities be able to borrow money?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Why is there no provision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Sought by whom?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: This is a key issue. One of the strengths of a university is that it has autonomy and is able to borrow and invest. If existing universities can borrow while technological universities cannot borrow, we do not have a level playing field. That feeds into the concerns that those who are against technological universities have. They may have other reasons too. I want to see it happen but I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Other people got a bit of latitude.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I seek the permission of the Chairman to ask for a note from the HEA showing what the current situation is for institutes of technology as regards borrowing money and baseline funding for research and development, and how that will change, if at all, when they transition into a technological university and how they will differ from existing universities. I ask for a detailed note to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Some members might not want to support it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: There are two issues. The first is that, on the face of it, Mr. Gleeson might not have given accurate evidence to this committee. That is quite serious. I had difficulty with many of the answers we got from him, in particular. That is serious. What is more serious is the substance because if the State Claims Agency was of the view, formed on the basis of information it states it got from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: The smear tests, yes. I refer to the audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Exactly. I refer to the result of the smear audit.