Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick

9:00 am

Professor Shane Kilcommins:

My initial impression was that it was going to be investigated and I was waiting to hear from the actual investigator. When I had not heard, I followed up with the investigator who told me that he had not received that information. This was the point about the importance of the governing authority and executive receiving those planning reports. I thought that was material. I had contacted the investigator through the president's office. The president came back to me and said I should not have done that and that it was inappropriate. The reason for that was that my submission was never going to be investigated and that I had misinterpreted the decision of the protected disclosure group.