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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: In the past few years was any head of research and innovation a director or a shareholder in any of the companies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does the head of research and innovation at the institute have a role in governance and the management of conflicts of interest to ensure the institute is protected?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: In policy terms, if the head of research and innovation was to approach Professor O'Shea or somebody else in the institute about the start-up of a spin-out company of which he or she wanted to be a director and a shareholder, would that be possible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Why would it be a serious issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: When Dr. Love appeared before the committee yesterday, I put these questions to him and he offered a completely different view. He was of the view that it would not be a conflict of interest. In fact, he said he would see no difficulty with it. It was put to the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills that a former vice president of an institute, the head of research...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Will Dr. Love elaborate on his comments yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: What I have asked Professor O'Shea is that if the head of research and innovation at the institute was to approach him with a proposal to establish a spin-out company of which he or she proposed to be a shareholder and a director, would that be possible. Is Dr. Love saying he would say it would be inappropriate and that the person should leave his or her space as head of research and then by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: But not necessarily as head of research.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Perhaps Dr. Love might elaborate on what he means by the words "much broader than that". What I am asking specifically is if a head of research was considering establishing one or more spin-out companies and that he or she had responsibility for oversight and governance, in Dr. Love's view, should he or she remove himself or herself from the position of head of research and then concentrate...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Would that not be very difficult to do if the manager also had responsibility for oversight? Professor O'Shea has said that if the head of research was to put that proposition to him, he would immediately see a conflict of interest. I am assuming that what he is saying is that despite the person having a management and governance role, if he or she wants to get into the innovation space and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: If the head of research was a shareholder in multiple spin-out companies, would that complicate the matter even more?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Will Professor O'Shea forward to the committee a copy of his policy on intellectual property and the management of conflicts of interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: My second issue concerns the Irish management institute, IMI. What is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: How did it become part of UCC?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I presume UCC paid for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: What I am asking is if there was a cost involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: How much did that cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Did UCC have to take on the liabilities of the IMI?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There were no liabilities in terms of pension or bank payments, etc.?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There were no liabilities and no payments were made to acquire the IMI such that the acquisition was cost neutral for the institute.