Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015

9:00 am

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledged at the outset that the Mazars report was about process and evaluating process. I made that distinction. I have no difficulty in acknowledging that Mazars acknowledged that process. That is for sure. However, that does not solve the problem for me. I see a cultural problem that screams out at me of people perhaps being leaned on, not being supported and possibly getting sick as a result of the stress of it. I do not accept that the net point here is that person A was ill and the other two were malicious in all of their intent. I think that is a wrong depiction of what happened. The difficulty is that we do not have a single in-depth analysis of each of these allegations to establish if the rot went wider or deeper than what we have had a glance of. That bothers me. I do not want to think badly of the professor, much less of the university, but I would be misleading if I said anything other than the fact that situation to me is extremely troubling.

Do retired persons return to the university to act in a consultancy basis?

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