Garvey offers to ‘clean up the mess damaging’ IT Tralee
He was at the centre of controversy after a finding of plagiarism against him in a 2008 research thesis was overturned on appeal. His expenses of over €125,000 between 2005 and 2011 also raised concerns, prompting Education Minister Ruairi Quinn to order a review of governors’ expenses at all 14 institutes of technology.
Records released by the Department of Education under the Freedom of Information Act include a letter in Irish by Mr Garvey to the department at the end of September containing the offer to return to the college in some capacity. He confirmed in it that he had stepped down from the chairman’s role as of July 31.
