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

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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-----but Ms Harney was Minister for Health and Children. I am not questioning her role. Obviously, like Deputy Sherlock, I disagree with her ideologically, but I am not questioning her integrity. However, the very people who were involved in the purchase of a house in Dublin that was not needed by the university - a purchase from which the university subsequently pulled back and looked for, and presumably got, its deposit back - came to the governing body with this and the governing body said to fire away; it was going to do this. This took place at a late-night meeting on 5 April 2018, as I understand it.