Ms Mary Harney:

I, together with the chair of the audit and risk committee, met with the HEA chairman and CEO last August and I believe they were genuinely impressed with all the reforms the governing body had carried out in the university. The governing authority confirmed all those reforms and I, together with the president, had another meeting with them, including the CEO, on, I believe, 12 November. I believe the HEA, and I am not speaking for it nor do I have any such right, is satisfied serious reforms in governance have taken place at the University of Limerick. I hope the Minister, when he visits the university on the 23rd of this month and engages with the president and her colleagues, will be in a position to release that funding.