€1,000-a-day job filled without following procedures

Assistant secretary of the Department of Higher Education William Beausang emailed presidents of WIT and IT Carlow to inform them that the proper procurement process would not be used in the hiring of Tom Boland.

A €1,000-a-day job at the new Technological University of the South East was filled without regard to proper procurement procedures, which are supposed to apply to all positions over €25,000. 

Tom Boland was announced as executive director of the Technological University of the South East consortium by Higher Education Minister Simon Harris last July.