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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Was that a joint meeting between both presidents?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: I am aware of that and that is fine. I am really not concerned about Mr. Kelly at this point. I am concerned about the job that the Department and the HEA did with regard to this merger process and its involvement and oversight. I am not concerned about the Port, Hunt or Quigley reports. It is endless. What Mr. Ó Foghlú has outlined to the committee is very significant with...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Nobody is going to say that there will never be problems with anything. Mr. Boland said it is an unfinished process that has not failed completely. It is important that we discover the reasons why it has failed to date. Surely that is critical before we move in any new direction with regard to a merger or non-merger? If the two presidents were giving assurances two weeks before this broke...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: So Mr. Ó Foghlú is not prepared to discuss the issues-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: I am going to give Mr. Ó Foghlú an opinion more than anything else. It might be a question of sorts. If this happened on my watch, notwithstanding Mr. Kelly's prospective work, I would get the officials and possibly people from the governing body - the chairman has left Waterford Institute of Technology - in Mr. Ó Foghlú's offices. That did happen to some extent. Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: If people in both institutions do not understand that the Department of Education and Skills and the HEA are exercising keen oversight of this issue and these two institutions, the Department and the HEA will be doing the same thing they have been doing for the past ten years. I appreciate Mr. Ó Foghlú and Mr. Boland coming in and they have been very frank with their responses but...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: There are discussions at the moment with regard to the additional funding of that project which is on the table. We will find out about that additional funding within the next few months.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Mr. Ó Foghlú said that the merger ended, in his opinion, with an e-mail that was inappropriate.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Regarding the reason given in that e-mail - Mr. Ó Foghlú does not have to explain the reason which he said would be counterproductive and that is fair enough - was it given to Mr. Ó Foghlú at the meeting that occurred two weeks prior to the e-mail from the president? Was any mention made of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: The problem we have here, and perhaps the Chairman touched on it, is that we have a lack of information. We have vacuum on top of vacuum. Nobody seems to know what is going on in these institutions. This is not new. This is an age old thing. Mr. Boland is at the helm for 11 years and the lessons should have been learned a long time ago with regard to Waterford. I am from Waterford and I...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: I suggest the committee ask the HEA and the Department to update it on the work Mr. Kelly is undertaking on the situation in Waterford and Carlow and to report to it within a number of weeks on the merger process? We cannot leave it open-ended.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: When will it be completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Does that mean Mr. Ó Foghlú is precluded from becoming involved in the issues that are historical?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: The concern is that both entities have, to a certain extent, detached themselves from the process, with the appointment of Mr. Kelly. I wish him good luck in his work.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: It has proved disastrous in the past. That is my opinion and concern. My last question may be for everyone, but I will address it to Professor McGonagle. In his organisation is there a requirement for the registrar to have an accountancy qualification?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Does the person concerned have an accountancy qualification?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (20 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available through his Department to assist voluntary groups providing a community service in obtaining essential equipment to assist their projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2814/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (20 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: 622. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that is available to prospective new community music clubs-groups under the music capital grants scheme. [2258/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Application Numbers (16 Dec 2014)

John Deasy: 114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in County Waterford who have claimed the back to work enterprise allowance for the self-employed over the past four years. [48317/14]