Results 261-280 of 2,211 for speaker:Paul Connaughton
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: After €217,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: That is unbelievable. It is remarkable that he provides a report that took a lot longer for the €217,000 and that the institute does not like it. Was there any other issue? Did GMIT not like what was in the report, what was said and what its outcomes were?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Was there no claim back on this at all? GMIT appointed this man to compile a report for €217,000 and the report is supplied, and we are not going to listen to a word of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: The position then was that the report came back, GMIT was not happy with it, Mr. Madden did not respond and €217,000 was gone on this. At this stage, did the institute go back to Professor Bairbre Redmond?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Her costs were €63,278. How was there such a difference between her costs and what Mr. Madden was getting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I am sorry to cut across, but what I do not understand is that at the very start of this process Professor Redmond was the first person on board. She then asked for a second person, and that became Mr. Madden. At this stage, who was calling the shots in relation to the pay agreement, terms of reference, etc.? Where was the decision-making process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: But Professor Redmond has already negotiated a deal with GMIT in relation to payment and pro bonowork, etc.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: At what stage then does Hayes Solicitors come into this because it gets €85,000 out of this mess?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: To both investigators?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: But that does not include Mr. Madden now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Could Mr. Fennell give me that date again? When did Hayes Solicitors come in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Does Mr. Fennell know what date they started working on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Did they start working from that point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: When GMIT went back to Professor Redmond to say that Mr. Madden was gone and GMIT was not happy with the report, was it merely for her to finish the report or was it to go back over the issues that GMIT was not happy with in Mr. Madden's report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I would not say GMIT had "rubbished" Mr. Madden's report at this stage, but it was not fit for purpose.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Just the president?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Was this discussed with any board members?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: To Mr. Madden's report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: No. Did those same people see Mr. Madden's report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Is there no chance that a report came into the president's office and he was only one who saw it?