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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: By the way, the High Court and Supreme Court proceedings were in respect of a dog on the university grounds. I was acting for a totally independent party, but that is how long the case took, and at huge cost to a particular third-level institution. That is going back about 20 years ago and I was acting in a legal capacity. The second issue I want to raise relates to the speculation about...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: So the current valuation for this site for which we paid €8 million is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: I will just go back to the decision by the governing body to acquire the site. I served on a State board - the board of the Port of Cork - for ten years. When we were purchasing new property we always got two other valuations and that would be the process available. With a 29-member board, how come nobody raised that question in regard to this purchase?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: But the governing body was not presented with anything in writing to that effect.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: When I served on the board we always insisted on getting the actual written documentation to cover ourselves as board members. I am surprised that a 29-member board would not have some legal expertise to protect everyone on the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: But it did leave the members of the board very exposed because they had not seen-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: Is there not a message in that, in the sense that when a presentation like that is brought to a board and people are there to protect the public interest, they should look for something to be set out clearly in writing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: When this issue arose, did the governing body feel there was a need to review other projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: Were there other projects where property was acquired? Was it satisfied that all the boxes were ticked regarding valuations for previous projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: I wish to ask about long-term planning in the university. Does Professor Mey feel further development is required but that it has been restricted as a result of what has occurred in this case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: It would be helpful to the committee if we could find out the kind of time period for which the university is restricted from publishing its report. Are we talking about three months, six months, 12 months or 18 months?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: In the 2020 report, it is stated the university employs 1,868 people and that its subsidiaries employ 292 people. Are the witnesses satisfied that there are adequate checks and balances to ensure that those subsidiaries are complying with all the rules and regulations relating to employment, etc.? What is the connection?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Colm Burke: The witnesses are satisfied the university is protected with the checks and balances in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Colm Burke: Mr. McGarr can deal with the issues in replies to questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for making themselves available and for the contribution that they are making to this debate. My colleague referred to Mr. Stephen Dodd SC's opinion. This is about the compulsory purchase issue. Mr. Dodd SC, in page 62 of his opinion, states: Insofar as the State proposes to compulsory acquire the lands, the appropriate legislation is under the Health Act 1947 which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Colm Burke: Is Mr. McGarr now saying that if Mr. Dodd SC is saying this in his opinion, Mr. McGarr is saying that the State, in real terms, is not in the driving seat in relation to compulsorily acquiring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Colm Burke: What is Mr. McGarr's view? Does he think the State would succeed in a compulsory purchase of this land?