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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) Catherine Murphy: It makes it more difficult for me to understand why a report that was commissioned by the governing board was not provided to at least the chancellor, if not the board, given that is the relationship. I am finding it as difficult as other members of the committee to understand the relationships and the roles. I would have thought it would be the person or the body that commissions the report...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: What element of the university was it commissioned by? Was it the governing body-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: It was not the governing body.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: We need a map of the governance arrangements for the university. I ask that Professor Mey provides that because it is very difficult to understand the roles and responsibilities. That is certainly not helpful here. Does the Higher Education Authority, HEA, have sign-off on UL or any other third level institution signing off on capital projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Okay. It is the Department that then signs off. What are the requirements from the Department before a sign-off happens? Does it look for a written valuation? Would that not be standard practice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Is there anything further to add to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: The University of Limerick and the third level sector featured strongly in the last Committee of Public Accounts of which I was a member, unfortunately. Some of that related to whistleblowers. An investigation was completed by an external investigator in November 2020 into several of those allegations, some of which dated back to 2017. Some of the allegations were about people being...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: There was a report with regard to four allegations in areas of recruitment and procurement for which insufficient evidence was found. Some of that related to procurement and some of it related to recruitment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Was any compensation paid with regard to the result of the external investigator's findings?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: With regard to procurement, how many contracts did the allegations relate to? Are those contracts still in place? Has that all been rectified?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to some of the roles, such as the director of strategy. Who devised and created that role? Is there a job specification for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: What is the salary starting point for that role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: What would be the salary starting point?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Roughly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Is it a secondment as opposed to an employment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: I do not understand it either.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Who devised the UL strategy? Does that include the governing body? Who does it include?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Catherine Murphy: Was that outsourced to a consultancy and if so, was there a cost in doing that?