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- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is a company or a single individual being used? I am conscious that there was an article in The Irish Timeson a new company that has sprung up and note Ruairí Quinn is in the photograph. The company is called EduCo. Mr. McCarthy was in the middle of explaining it to me, but I was trying to explain where I was coming from. I see a privatisation agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is what I am concerned about - contracting out. Five of my ten minutes have been used up and Mr. Mannion is to come back to me so we can follow it up separately. While I am raising my serious concerns about that, I will go no further now as I have not had time to reflect on the matter. It certainly seems to be a privatisation route for a college that has been left without a president...
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have seen that being used to justify not having an Irish language requirement for the president of NUI Galway. I have a difficulty there but it is for a different forum. Sin lá eile. There is so much to address here. How much time have I left, five or six minutes?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The Chair has been very generous. Like Professor Barry, I am most uncomfortable talking about specific people. I share his concern, although perhaps not for the same reason. I do not think it is my role to be identifying people here although they are easily identifiable in respect of the complaints that have been made and so on. The report by Mazars cost €69,000, and it was...
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How many recommendations were made in the report? I found it confusing. I think there were 14.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Can Professor Barry take me through those 15 recommendations as quickly as possible? Have they all been implemented? I think his briefing paper says they have not.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was published on 29 January.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: By the time of the publication of the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What are those three?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: So that one is subject to negotiation with the unions.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What are the next two?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: In respect of recommendation 15, that the university should develop clearly documented criteria for suspension, why would that require a change in the statutes?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The other recommendation, that the university should consider being more prescriptive in its policies in respect of the selection of disciplinary panel members, does not require a change in the statutes, does it?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is there a timeframe for when this is going to happen, if it is possible? What is the university going to do if it is not possible?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that but they are not implemented. I understand there is a difficulty and I am asking Professor Barry when and how he sees that difficulty being resolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Why has the university not explored this? The report was published in January 2016 and it is now March 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I could not be happy. The Mazars report followed an internal report with which nobody was happy. Mazars was given a very limited brief in respect of processes, an issue to which Deputy McDonald has already referred. At the very least, since all those recommendations were accepted, they should have been looked at quickly and implemented. Professor Barry is saying it has been difficult for...
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I understand all that. It has been recommended that the university change that and it has got advice that it is difficult. I am simply asking at this point what is the time span for resolving the issues one way or another. I am not interfering with how UL will change, but when does Professor Barry see those two last recommendations being implemented one way or another?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Professor Barry stated that he was in contact with the Higher Education Authority, HEA, and that there is a way around it. Is there?
- Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is a big university. Professor Barry has given us the figures. Is it 15,000 students?