Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015

9:00 am

Mr. John Field:

Yes. We still have a sabbatical policy and the amendments to the policy we brought in were primarily directed at compliance with taxation laws. Sabbatical outside of the university sector has a slightly different meaning. It is a professional development leave. People are working but they are furthering their research in different fields and they are not necessarily teaching. They are still employees and they are on university business. The expenses are incurred conducting their job and, therefore, they are a claimable expense. We have staff on sabbatical at this time and still claiming expenses.

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