Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We will request that further information and the secretariat will follow up on that. We will note and publish the correspondence.

No. 842 is correspondence from Ms Kerstin Mey, president, University of Limerick, UL, dated 21 October 2021, responding to the committee’s requests for a copy of the KPMG review regarding the acquisition of the property - known as the former Dunnes Stores site in Limerick, which we discussed with Ms Mey in June - and providing a further breakdown of entertainment expenditure relating to a ceremony for the award of an honorary doctorate in New York. This matter was raised by Deputy Carthy. Ms Mey states that the KPMG report has not yet been finalised. A draft has been circulated to those involved and they have requested more time to consider it, which has been granted. UL states: “Once the University has received and considered the Report, it can be shared with the Committee subject to any legal restrictions and required redactions.” As regards the entertainment expenditure relating to a ceremony for the award of an honorary doctorate in New York, total costs, including travel and accommodation, are just short of €37,000. UL states that the expenditure relates to three events, including an event at Carnegie Hall to announce scholarships, which UL states is worth in the region of €30,000 to it annually. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Carthy raised this item. Is he okay with that for now?

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