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

Cormac Devlin: We had engaged on that.

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

Cormac Devlin: It is autonomous.

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

Cormac Devlin: I have got that.

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

Cormac Devlin: Except of course in the situation we are facing now.

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

Cormac Devlin: I have two minutes but go ahead.

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

Cormac Devlin: Absolutely.

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

Cormac Devlin: How often does the HEA engage with UL?

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

Cormac Devlin: Did that not change, given this litany of reports? Did that not change, even from 2015? Let us go back to that report from Deloitte. Even from that, did the HEA not say that this university may need a monthly meeting?

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

Cormac Devlin: Was it monthly?

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...