Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick

9:30 am

Ms Rosemary Fogarty:

The year-on-year costs were actually quite similar. This issue came up last year. The €925,000 the Deputy referred to added the legal costs and the technology transfer, which were the patent costs. They are not legal costsper se, but the word "legal" was included in the description in the table. They were all added up together to get to that figure.

On a like-for-like basis the legal costs in both years were quite similar. They were €504,000 in 2019-2020 versus €542-----