Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick

9:00 am

Mr. Keith Moynes:

The HEA now has powers, and it is exercising them. That is what the position has now been brought to. It is using the powers to seek the review and it has a range of powers escalating from that to take action on foot of that. The HEA did not have those powers before the 2022 Act and that was the big issue. We had autonomous institutions, which we relied on assurances from, but we lacked the powers to intervene where those assurances-----