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

Ms Mary Harney:

I think that will be the learning. Prior to this governing authority making changes, the president, with the approval of one of the subcommittees of the governing body, could spend up to €20 million. We have reduced that to €2 million. We have done a lot on governance issues to make sure that our oversight role is taken seriously. In the future, it is clear that there will be learning from what happened. The president has read the report and is in a position to make sure that learning is implemented as quickly as possible even before the report is published.