Ms Mary Harney:

Deputy Devlin is right. The governing authority decided we should have an investigation. The governance committee of the governing authority said it should be one of the big four. I was not involved in that and nor was the governing authority. The president can deal with that. Essentially, what the investigation was to do was establish whether or not the correct information and the full information was put before the governing authority. This is the purpose of the report. That is why I said it to the Chair that nobody wants it more than me and the governing body. I assure the committee that it comes up at every meeting as to why we cannot see the report and publish it and move on from the controversy. It was a really good story. When we got the site not only were we all excited in the university but it was very well received in Limerick that the university was going to come into the city and create a campus at that location. Unfortunately, since the freedom of information request and the knowledge that there was not a written valuation, the matter has been dogged by controversy, including here this morning. I regret this very much, as do my colleagues.