Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick
9:30 am
Mr. John Kelly:
I will come in on that point. I do not purport to speak for the governing authority although I work as secretary to the governing authority. The present governing authority is the same governing authority that approved the acquisition. My experience is that people are not afraid to ask questions. We have robust and engaging debate. I do not think there are any issues there. My sense is that what happened in this case was that assurances were given, the governing authority relied on those assurances and when this information came to light as the result of an FOI request, the members of the governing authority felt that perhaps they did not act on a fully informed basis. That is the nub of the issue.
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