Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is highly unusual to see accounts and financial statements like this and the fact that there are a number of issues. The previous Committee of Public Accounts did a piece of work on some of the universities, and UL was one of them. If I recall correctly, there were issues with people terminating an employment and being taken on as consultants afterwards. Some of that had to do with severance agreements. We did quite a solid piece of work on that. Having done that, one would have hoped that lessons would be learned. Does this fall into the same type of category? That is my question on that particular one.

With regard to the city centre campus on the Dunnes Stores site, is that complete at this stage and not available for publication?

What do we know about that?

On the significant level of procurement non-compliance, is that on one item or on multiple items? How would the Comptroller and Auditor General categorise "significant"? Perhaps Mr. McCarthy will enlighten us a little bit on the categorisation of that.

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