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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 25 Jul 1996

Vol. 468 No. 4

Written Answers. - Price Waterhouse Report.

Edward Nealon

Question:

441 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Education if she will give details of the various inquiries pursued, the various processes pursued and the various people interviewed by Price Waterhouse consultants in their efforts to seek to establish the way in which items of craftwork produced by pupils of the Ursuline College in Sligo for the art paper in the 1995 leaving certificate examination went missing; if it has been established that the craftwork reached her Department's buildings in Athlone, County Westmeath; if it can be assumed that the difficulty arose and the loss took place in the one area, such as her Department's building in Athlone, in view of the fact that craftwork of students in Navan and other parts of the country also went missing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15174/96]

The Price Waterhouse report, which the Deputy will have received, gives a full explanation of the methodology used to conduct the investigation. Price Waterhouse have not named those people whom they interviewed in the course of their inquiries. The material was properly despatched from the Ursuline College. An Post have stated that a package bearing the same reference number as the package of craftwork from the Ursuline College was signed for as having been received by an employee of a Sligo-based company. However, the package itself has never been traced and Price Waterhouse state that it is therefore not possible to say with any certainty what was the ultimate fate of this package. Price Waterhouse concluded following a lengthy and very thorough investigation and a report which details the facts as ascertained by them, that there is no single cause for the errors and failures that occurred. They state that the reasons for their occurrence are, in most cases, complex and multifaceted.

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