Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick

9:30 am

Professor Kerstin Mey:

I will answer that. Of course, all our endeavours have been geared towards dealing with the report. We are very aware that it has affected our reputation; I acknowledged that in my statement to the committee today. We have worked tirelessly over the past period to implement a strengthened and improved governance process, which was acknowledged by our regulator, the Higher Education Authority. Ideally, I hope that we can put a line under this and move forward in order to realise our ambitious plans. It has been a very difficult period for me and for the executive involved, but I assure the Deputy we have made significant changes since I took on responsibility as president. I share the Deputy's frustration in not being able to publish the report more widely, and put our new policies and procedures against it, in order to evidence the change that we have undertaken.