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- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Tell me about the access and international programmes. What category of students are in those? An access programme suggests students do not have a high level of educational qualifications but need assistance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Were these for access students?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Tell me about the access programmes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: How many are there in total?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: These are students who would not have had the required education to go straight into third level.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: These seem to be the more educationally disadvantaged students in DIT.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yet, it is the one location in which there is no library.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Dr. O'Connor understands what I am saying.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: There was a library until-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Dr. O'Connor probably knows the paper, The Edition. It is one of DIT's publications.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: An article of 4 May 2016 states that DIT Mountjoy Square access students were being left out when it came to opening hours and library facilities due to a lack of funding. This was three months after the Swets UK contract issue blew up and went wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: In July 2014, the contract for online journals went belly-up and within three months one of the libraries closed - the one in Mountjoy Square, which has the 250 most educationally disadvantaged students in DIT. The witnesses are now telling me that the students can go down to Cathal Brugha Street to look at the books there. If we investigate this further, will we find a proper series of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mountjoy Square library was closed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Before Dr. Cohen does so, I cannot buy what Professor Norton has said. It is the equivalent of the Health Service Executive telling the committee that it had not closed a health centre on Mountjoy Square but moved it to Grangegorman. It is meaningless to tell people in Mountjoy Square that the facility has not been closed. The centre that was on the square no longer exists and has moved...
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It has been stated that steps were taken to ensure the service to students would not be affected as the result of the Swets contract. We find, however, that this happens within a very short period. Is Dr. O'Connor about to tell me that was a total coincidence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can Dr. O'Connor see the connection?
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have asked Dr. O'Connor about the figures. There are still 250-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Since 2014, students on Mountjoy Square, including the 250 students in this academic year and the 200 students in the previous academic year, have had no library on site.