Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Before I go into questioning, it occurs to me that there is not an answer to this question that could be produced for the committee on the amount of money this governance issue is going to cost the taxpayer. We have it in black and white in terms of what it is costing us in impairments and so on, but I would love to know how much it cost to produce the special report for the C and AG. I have been part of three committee sessions on this issue. A huge amount of back room work goes into that by the secretariat of the committee as well all the work we did not get to because we were dealing with this. Then, when we look at section 64, Dr. Wall is telling us about the considerable resource the Higher Education Authority, HEA, is putting into it. The actual amount of money the taxpayer is putting into this issue and the lack of governance at University of Limerick, UL, is astonishing. We are not going to get to the bottom of that. We will not get a full figure for that, but I want to outline that before I began the questioning.

I will pick up where Deputy Verona Murphy left off. I read section 1.5 of Professor Laffan's opening statement in which she talked about how the president has resigned. Being honest, it is a startling omission not to mention that she resigned as president but still remains within the university. Can Professor Laffan tell me what grade?