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 Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I appreciate that and I appreciate the obligations arising from the whistleblower legislation.

They do not always get to court. It is the ones that get it court that I am asking about. They must be high profile within the governance of the university and they must come to Professor Mey's desk. I am surprised there is not a general sense from, perhaps, Mr. Butler, that somebody cannot give me just a general figure about whether it is three or 30 High Court proceeding? I know it is not 30, so just tell me.

Let me ask a different way. If I were working at UL and I instituted High Court proceedings against the university, whose desk within the university would the fact, nature or management of those proceedings come to?