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

Here we are now in May 2023 and that same body, which is supposed to ensure good governance in the university and make decisions, is now expected to make those decisions based on the fact that it was literally walked into this without the proper information at the point when this decision was made. Now, not having seen the report, it is expected to ensure that this type of activity does not happen again. Neither the witnesses nor I can undo the past. Nobody in this room can. Tomorrow is the first day of the future. My God, if I was on the local residents’ association and we were talking about €500 being spent on signs coming into the estate and something like this happened, as a member of the association, I would be trying to make sure this did not happen again. We are talking about €8.34 million. We are also talking about taxpayers’ money. Do the witnesses not accept that there is a credibility issue here? It is absolutely untenable for the governing authority to be put in this position.