Professor Brigid Laffan:

Yes. We entered into mediation with the former president. It was extremely important that we brought certainty to the leadership of the university. The previous president had lost the confidence of ten members of the executive. We would have had an unstable institution. My absolute commitment was to bring the unstable ship, the University of Limerick, to a safe harbour. Rather than a long-term investigation and litigation, a mediated outcome was, in my judgment, by far the best for the university.