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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Am I correct that Professor Donnelly was one of a number of people who set up this company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: It was established as a private company and then it entered into a relationship with the institute in which Professor Donnelly was the vice president of research and innovation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: We will get to whether it is the norm in a few minutes. Who were the other people involving in setting up the company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: I do not believe it makes any difference; they were shareholders in a company. The information is on the CRO records.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Am I correct that one of those people is Mr. Barry Downes?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Yes, and I am putting it on the record that one of those people is Mr. Barry Downes. I said earlier that Professor Donnelly should answer the questions put to him.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: I can. Some of these people worked for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Some of these people worked for the institute and some of them had roles within the institute. My questions are perfectly reasonable. All I am looking for is information. We want and we need information. I am concerned that Professor Donnelly's response has been that he cannot answer this and that. For that reason, I propose to put a number of things on the record.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Sorry, Professor Donnelly-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: I ask Professor Donnelly to allow me to put my questions and I remind him that he is the president of an institute and that is why he is here. He is here to answer questions as the president of an institute and as a former vice president of research and innovation in the institute. I may have to just put issues on the record without getting answers to questions. As I said, Mr. Barry Downes...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: To who in the institute was that indicated?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Who was the financial controller at the time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Why can Professor Donnelly not name the financial controller at the time? He worked for the institute. Am I correct that the financial controller at the time was Mr. Anthony McFeely? I cannot understand why we cannot name people who worked for an institute.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: That may be the case but at the same time if I was named as a Deputy for Waterford I would have no difficulty with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Those people are paid from the public purse as well. All of that is a distraction. Did Professor Donnelly then enter into negotiations with the financial controller? What happened? Could Professor Donnelly talk me through the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: What was the percentage shareholding the institute got initially?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Why 12%? Who made that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: I understand all that. I am trying to understand two things, namely, when the negotiation was going on with WIT regarding its shareholding, who was negotiating on behalf of the company and who was negotiating on behalf of the institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: Professor Donnelly is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (6 Apr 2017) David Cullinane: So the CEO of the company carried out the negotiations on behalf of the company and was it the financial controller who carried out the negotiations on behalf of the institute?