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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will revert back to the Dunnes Stores site for a moment. What is the current position with respect to the publication of the KPMG report? There was an issue around legal proceedings. Where is that issue of legal proceedings now? What are the legal proceedings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Have recommendations in that report been implemented in full?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Obviously, since all of this came to light. It is really time now to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Would Mr. Kelly accept that at this point that the university did overpay for that site? On the previous day here it did not happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: No one here would disagree with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I saw that in the briefing notes. That is accepted by the people present. I understand part of the building is in use at the moment. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: How much of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: What is it used for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is there still a question over its demolition?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Has it come up in executive committee meetings despite the fact one third of it is in use?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Therefore, we are in a new situation. Deputy Murphy is very welcome; I know she was held up. We were going to continue as four of us want to come back in and Deputy Murphy needs to come in. Some people have been here since before 9 a.m. so I will suspend the meeting for a very short break. We will resume in ten minutes sharp.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Catherine Murphy has ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Murphy. I call Deputy Kelly. We will take five minutes each.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The key point is that it was misrepresented as something different. We went through this area. It was 20 homes. All they had to do, as the Deputy said, was look at the auctioneer’s window or, as I said, check on the computer for the house prices in the area on any of the auctioneer sites. They would have found out that houses were selling for half the price the university paid. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It was misrepresentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Anything built in the past few years is A-rated. I have a question for the Higher Education Authority. The information supplied states that, on 30 July 2022, the governing authority approved a new policy for the acquisition of property, buildings, land and infrastructure. Following that meeting, a status update was provided to the HEA. At the same meeting, the governing authority was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Would that not raise red flags for the HEA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The HEA pressed the button to release the funding because of assurances given.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I accept that Dr. Wall is saying that the HEA was told but did it go through a root-and-branch check to see that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Was it implemented?