Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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There is a huge governance issue here. From my perspective and from all the knowledge I have in relation to UL, there is quite good academia and research there. The production is fantastic, and I say that as somebody who lives locally. For all of that to continue, however, corporate governance has to dramatically improve because there will be reputational damage, as Deputy Catherine Murphy said.

I will ask Professor Kilcommins a similar question to the one I asked Professor Laffan earlier. Professor Kilcommins is left in a very tricky situation, I might add. With the current structure of management in there, does Professor Kilcommins believe that every member of the team is pulling in the same direction?