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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 do indeed.

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 want to remind the committee that Professor Donnelly was a shareholder in a number of companies. I want to be clear about that for the record of the Committee of Public Accounts. One was Aceno Mobile Services, which then became ZolkC. 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: One is Fuseami, in which the Professor Donnelly is still a shareholder. 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: One was FeedHenry, which was sold on. There would be individuals with whom Professor Donnelly was shareholder in FeedHenry, who are also shareholders in Aceno and other companies. 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 would be a small number of the same individuals who had shareholdings in these companies. That is the point I am making. I am not alleging any wrongdoing. I am looking for factual information.

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: In this instance, when the witness was vice-president of-----

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 there is a number in which you are still a shareholder.

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 now president of the institute but he is still a shareholder in two companies. Did he have to declare that interest when he applied for the job as president?

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 would have declared 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: In terms of those companies, we have Aceno, ZolkC, Fuseami and FeedHenry. Did any of those companies receive EU funding?

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 companies.

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: Did they receive any European funding?

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: Did Professor Donnelly have any role in 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: Would he ever have gone to Brussels to lobby for investment in any of the companies in which he was a shareholder?

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: Did any of these companies receive any grants from the State, from Enterprise Ireland or any State agency, or any research support?

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: With respect, these are companies in which institute is a shareholder and which are co-located at the institute. I ask Professor Donnelly to answer the questions I am putting to him, regardless of his shareholding or-----

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 saying is that these companies were co-located at the institute of which the witness is president. He is here as the Accounting Officer for 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: Yes.

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: All I am trying to establish, Professor. Donnelly, is whether Aceno, ZolkC, Fuseami or FeedHenry received European Union or Enterprise Ireland funding.

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: They did. They would have also received all sorts of support from the institute in terms of researchers, space, etc. They would receive a range of different supports from the institute, is that correct?