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Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay, that is part one. Part two is that person A reported she was being blanked and perhaps even being left to hang out to dry by supervisory management in respect of these expense claims.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps Professor Barry will explain to me why person A no longer works for the University of Limerick.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was person A's sick leave, and matters as they subsequently unfolded, connected with person A coming forward and making the complaint and all of that?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not, so maybe I will make it straightforward for Professor Barry. He actually referred to person A in his own briefing document so he was quite at liberty to discuss this case and it is important that he does. It is my understanding that person A stumbled across the abuse of the expenses system repeatedly. Professor Barry referred to seven instances that were subsequently examined in...

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps Professor Barry would share with me the elements of his understanding please.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the witness tell the committee about person A's complaints? I believe this is a diversionary tactic. I am not asking Professor Barry to describe the nature of person A's sickness, if that is what concerns the witness. I want him to tell the committee about person A and the turn of events when person A discovered the claims and, holy hour, queried what was going on. People went to...

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Really? Professor Barry's own submission, and the Mazar's report and the position of the Higher Education Authority - if I understand them correctly - actually contradicts that.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: By the very fact that the university introduced the changes. The university had to settle with Revenue did it not, as a result-----

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and as a consequence? Will the witness tell the committee about the settlement with Revenue?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would prefer if Professor Barry explained it as he is the boss. No offence is meant to Mr. Field.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the university have to make a settlement with Revenue?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How much?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I just need a figure.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was the case I referred to bound up in this settlement, which was a travel arrangement while a person was on sabbatical leave? It involved a trip to Sydney. Initially, the expense claim was approximately €4,500. It was for a couple, in other words, the staff member plus their spouse. That got knocked back but a different arrangement came into place and an expense of €15,000...

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Field but time is limited to us. In this case, I am advised that initially Person A was advised to knock back that claim because it did not comply. That advice was given by two managers, not least because the claimant in question was to retire shortly around that time and then, subsequently, a direction came from further on high. Is Mr. Field the financial...

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is Mr. Field's relationship to the financial controller? Did they work for Mr. Field?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It seems that the direction for €15,000 might have come from the financial controller.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: There are other instances but the Chairman need not worry as I am not proposing to go into each of them. Person A brought this forward so Person A was right, were they not?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015 (30 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: So this was all kosher. There was nothing wrong with this claim.