Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 May 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020

9:30 am

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

The whistleblowers came forward and the witnesses have told us that the process was paused. Then there was a fresh round and the McKenna report followed that. I am reading from the briefing document, which states that the investigator found evidence that a member of senior management had breached the university's policy and procedures, that in the case of one allegation the investigation found that the actions of the member of senior management were inappropriate and non-professional, and that this manager left the university. Was any payment made to that person on leaving the university? Are there other protected disclosures in this same range of issues that are unresolved at this stage? Deputy Munster asked a question earlier about how recruitment happened. Does this relate to that issue? Can the witnesses give us some sort of indication on what the terms "inappropriate" and "non-professional" mean?

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