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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: So is it €50 million to €150 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I ask Mr. Butler how much has been spent on the site to date.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I asked the question of Mr. Butler. He is the finance officer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is on top of the purchase price.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can Mr. Butler answer my question in respect of the price range in terms of the cost of fully repurposing this building and the site? Is there a range of costs? I do not expect Mr. Butler to give the cost. He could not do so.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: For this site, are we looking at €50 million to €150 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Butler must have some notion of what the range will be.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: It could be up to that amount.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Ms Harney is chancellor of the university and chairperson of the governing body. She stated that nobody expressed concerns in respect of the valuation of the site. I am puzzled about this. A verbal assurance was given but no documentation was presented, yet no one asked was there a second valuation or evidence of a second or third valuation. I have sat on boards that handle far smaller...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Sorry, Ms Harney-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I have borne that in mind all morning.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I do not meant this in a personal way-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: -----but Ms Harney was Minister for Health and Children. I am not questioning her role. Obviously, like Deputy Sherlock, I disagree with her ideologically, but I am not questioning her integrity. However, the very people who were involved in the purchase of a house in Dublin that was not needed by the university - a purchase from which the university subsequently pulled back and looked...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: At what time did the meeting conclude?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: At what time did it finish?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Fair enough. I am open to correction on that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I am just trying to draw people out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: This is a simple case of a board of governors sitting there and making the decision to spend more than €8 million without any written documentation in front it and nobody, not even Ms Harney, asked whether there was a second or third valuation. That is the point I am making. Does Ms Harney accept that was a huge mistake?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The board had no evidence of a valuation from an auctioneer or a local valuer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Two valuations-----