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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 McGuinness: The HEA has no role in getting into the in-depth analysis of its accounts.
- 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 McGuinness: Does the Department have a role in respect of its engagement with Mr. Boland's outfit to look at how it is dealing with organisations below 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 McGuinness: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú feel that the Department's governance section was on top of its game during this period? Has he discovered any weaknesses in that section as he examined the HEA?
- 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 McGuinness: It was not weakness.
- 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 McGuinness: In 2013. Professor McGonagle was the one responsible for the agenda and ensuring that everything was done correctly in accordance with best practice in governance. He signed off on these reports for Mr. Boland. If the NCAD was a business, it would have been struck off. It would not be here today. Revenue would have been after it. Perhaps the body that oversees corporate affairs would...
- 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 McGuinness: Is it not shocking that this was allowed to happen by a board and the management team?
- 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 McGuinness: We were all confronted by what was required of us from 2007 onwards. Everyone started to do, as the expression went, more with less. People covered off in different ways, as it were, but the accounts were always presented. What we are confronted with here today is typical of the public service generally from what I can see here every Thursday, so it does not shock me in a way. I have been...
- 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 McGuinness: It is not a weakness, it is an outright failure to apply proper governance in this particular college and within the Higher Education Authority. Mr. Boland has nothing to be proud of in relation to any of this.
- 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 McGuinness: This happened before in the WIT. It is costing taxpayers money. How long is Mr. Boland in his current position?
- 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 McGuinness: During that 11-year period, Mr. Boland did not flag to the Secretary General, Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, or his predecessor that issues were coming down the tracks, namely, that the lads in the colleges did not have time to do the books.
- 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 McGuinness: Mr. Boland did not go to find out. He accepted the word down along the line.
- 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 McGuinness: So as long as Professor McGonagle was signing off, everything was grand?
- 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 McGuinness: Clearly from Mr. Boland's point of view, this is a problem for Professor McGonagle and the board of the NCAD. I know what Professor McGonagle will do in the future, but how come he signed off on documentation that was not accurate and provide it to Mr. Boland?
- 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 McGuinness: As this did not meet the requirement for Professor McGonagle to sign off, why did he sign off?
- 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 McGuinness: Did Professor McGonagle feel he was misleading Mr. Boland?
- 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 McGuinness: So you did tell Mr. Boland?
- 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 McGuinness: When did Professor McGonagle tell Mr. Boland of these various 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 McGuinness: That was a once off.
- 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 McGuinness: Let Professor McGonagle answer. Was it just a once-off occurrence?
- 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 McGuinness: It was more than once. Professor McGonagle on more than one occasion was telling Mr. Boland that he had issues. Is that a fair statement?