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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: When did the university last employ a media consultancy company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: When did the university last employ one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: We are in the month of May. Was it in April or March? I ask Professor Mey to go back through the months and just tell me when. Does Professor May not recollect the last time a media consultancy was in UL?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: And I asked when the university last-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: When did UL last employ a media consultancy company? In what month of this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Who was it? What is the name of the consultancy company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: They will be named in the accounts. I am sure the Comptroller and Auditor General can confirm this but I do not think there is any difficulty there because it is public money, for the most part. There is no difficulty.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Why would they not want to answer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: I cannot see any difficulty here. It is a matter of interest to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Is that the company that was employed in May?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: It was valued at €3.5 million
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: The engagement at the committee today reminds me of a child having raided the sweet jar and you are questioning the child, who is in continual denial, but you can see the chocolate all around their mouth. Professor Mey has been here before and I have said this to her several times. On the last appearance or the time before, it was confirmed there was a whistleblower. It was confirmed by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Yes, I am referring to the Dunnes Stores site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: It was confirmed by Professor Mey at the last committee that an employee of UL raised the matter of the Dunnes Stores site in a protected disclosure. Subsequently it was withdrawn. The object of the question is what Professor Mey did about it. Ultimately, what pre-empted the KPMG report was the probing of the Comptroller and Auditor General and this committee. It was not something done...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Mr. O'Connor seems to want to answer. Is he aware of the whistleblower that was confirmed at the previous meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Mr. O'Connor has interjected a few times to tell us-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Professor Mey must have forgotten that or it did not come up in communication training.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: Do not go back to the KPMG report. This pre-empts that. I am going to say this. Forget about it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: -----because lessons are only learned when you get your hand caught in the sweet jar. There is no denying. You are there; your hand is in it. The reality is it does not matter. No lessons are learned unless there is accountability. I can clearly see here that somebody is of the understanding that just because we commissioned the KPMG report for, as I said, part of the arse covering, that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Verona Murphy: It is not really, a Chathaoirligh, to be fair. It describes the situation as we are discussing it.