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:
No. I have quoted the legal advice and I do not want to repeat it and take up the time of the committee. Case history goes back to a Department of Education case in 1940 and Carey v.Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd. The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, when he was talking in the Dáil on 17 May 2020, said in relation to the director general of the HSE that-----