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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: I would prefer if Professor Donnelly answered it.

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 commencement date of that policy?

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: Was the 2016 policy signed off on by the board?

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 have both here. The first is Intellectual Property Policy, version No. 1, signed off by the governing body and also the office of the head of research and innovation. The commencement date is 23 February 2010. Does Professor Donnelly have a copy of 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: He will see at the bottom of the front page that it refers to the policy owner. This line of questioning on the issue is important.

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: The delegation should have it but I have it here anyway. The policy owner is the office of the head 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: Correct. It goes on to talk about how conflicts of interest are managed and who does that. There was a commercialisation office. Is that not correct?

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: Whether it was the tech transfer office or the commercialisation office, the policy states the commercialisation office reports to the head 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: Which was who?

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: And then there was a commercialisation committee. Is that correct?

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 sat on the commercialisation committee?

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: As head of research and innovation, the professor was a member of the commercialisation committee.

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: The function of the commercialisation office, or the tech transfer office, and the commercialisation committee is to protect the institute, manage conflicts of interest and carry out the negotiations with companies in terms of spin-outs. Is that not correct?

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 does more than that. If the professor wants me to go through it all-----

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 I am putting to the professor is that it manages the interests of the institute and conflicts of interest. It delegates responsibility to people to negotiate on behalf of the institute. Is that correct?

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: There was a previous policy but FeedHenry was still in place when this-----

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: FeedHenry was still in place when this policy was-----

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: Is Professor Donnelly a shareholder in any other company that is-----

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: If he can, please.

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: Is he a shareholder in Aceno mobile technologies?