Dr. Alan Wall:

As things stand at the moment, and from what I know, we are not happy. We are anxious to talk to the university about what we know. We have correspondence in respect of other matters in which we have asked about general governance questions at UL. We received no indication that there were difficulties. A budget meeting was held recently and this did not come up at all.

The Deputy should remember that we have limited powers - this has been well rehearsed - but we ask direct questions in terms of the annual governance statements. In my view we are entitled to rely upon them. If we misunderstood them or if there is something we have not picked up on in those annual governance statements, then we are anxious to have a number of meetings about this and other issues with the university.