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

Mr. Gary Butler:

In terms of procurement, I will go back to the disclosure we made in the financial statement that there was €407,000 worth of non-compliant procurement, which related to 11 contracts. All of those have now been resolved but as a result of that, there have been system enhancements. One of the issues is that if one has aggregated spend, four different people across the university could be trying to contract with the same supplier. There was no flagging in place to flag that one was going to breach that. Systems improvements have been made around that.