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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: But Dunnes was earlier, in 2020.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Let us go back to Deloitte.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I will just ask the questions. From 2015, into 2016 with the Mazars report, and up to 2019 with the KPMG report, there are different reports year after year for different issues. Did the HEA not decide there was a problem in UL? Different personalities had come through the doors, yet the problems persisted. Did the HEA not say it had a problem there, regardless of the spending code?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: What did it do?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: When did the new Act come in?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: What about prior to 2022? Let us forget 2020, 2021 and 2022. Prior to that in 2015, five years earlier, did the HEA not act quicker?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: It is not personal.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I am talking about the organisation. Did the HEA, which is charged with good governance, not say from 2015 that it will have more than a quarterly report and casual engagement with the University of Limerick?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: With the Chair's permission I have one more question. During my last engagement in May 2022, I asked Mr. Moynes, "Would the Department not have a view on the process undertaken, given the fact that it is State money and given how the site was acquired?" The site I enquired about was the Dunnes Stores site. We are now talking about the Rhebogue site, and his response to me at the time was...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: There still seems to be.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: My observation to Mr. Moynes is to say that between the HEA and the Department there seems to be a kind of attitude of, "It was not us". Forgetting the new legislation of 2022, there is a serious failing between the two organisations given that there is a litany of reports from 2015 onwards. It seems that the Department funds the HEA. The HEA funds universities. This particular university...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: No.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to Russia's continued air and missile attacks against Ukraine's civilians and civilian and critical infrastructure, including the recent intensified targeting of the energy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20574/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on what can be done to intensify the provision of humanitarian and civil protection assistance to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20575/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We all recognise the importance of the early learning sector. The St. Nicholas Montessori College in Dún Laoghaire told its staff and students last month that it is due to close. The St. Nicholas Montessori College had a very long and proud history of education in this sector and was one of the leading colleges in the country. Obviously this decision has taken staff and students, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the NTA representatives back. I thank them very much for their engagement and for the briefing material they supplied. I will focus on something we raised when they were here last year, namely, real-time information, which the NTA addressed in its annual report. It calls them disappearing buses; I call them phantom buses. Some fees have been levied at some of the operators, in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate why Ms Graham does not want to focus on one operator, but the area where I live has quite a high level of the routes that Go-Ahead operates so she will forgive me saying that I receive many complaints about that particular operator. When I raised it last year, the reason given was Covid. I understand it is now recruitment issues. I appreciate that is a real issue right across...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: What is the timeframe after the NTA meets them? Last year fines were applied and so forth. How often do those meetings take place and are they on the basis of the level of complaints? Mr. Ryan also wishes to respond. Will the witnesses forward a note on the levels of fines being issued, especially around route 63? I could name a whole host of routes, but I will not as I have limited...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms Graham. I have three minutes left. Mr. Ryan might send on a note on that. We did not get to him. I asked a parliamentary question on the Aircoach route 702 a few months ago. My understanding was that Aircoach would operate a 24-hour service from the airport - it does not matter whether it is once or twice an hour - but it has become a 6 a.m. to 8 p.m route. Passenger...