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

Mary Lou McDonald: Who headed that up?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Who helped Mr. Field with that? Did he do it alone?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: His financial controller.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The university examined itself.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am just trying to establish the facts. The university examined itself regarding all of these matters.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: What did the interaction with the Comptroller and Auditor General consist of?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: How did Mr. Field interact with the Comptroller and Auditor General? Was it by letter?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Comptroller and Auditor General pay Mr. Field a visit?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Into these matters.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that but there was not a detailed hands-on engagement by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Rolling the tape forward, so to speak, Mazars then came in. Am I correct in saying it was appointed by the Higher Education Authority, HEA, to carry out a review?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: What is curious is that the review is of the process by which the university carried out its own investigation. I put that to the HEA representative but also to the university witnesses. I would have been much happier if an independent outside agency had been given the entire job to do, not just the process by which the university reviewed matters, but to go in and examine the allegations....

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

Mary Lou McDonald: None of it ended well for any of the people who stepped forward.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Sure.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: My question is for the HEA. Why was this Mazars report and examination limited to an overview of the university's own process?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay, that is fair enough.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I suggest to the HEA that it should consider that deeper investigation. I note it is at greater remove now. My view is, for the purpose of reassuring this committee and, more importantly, with an eye to proper procedure and good governance in the university, that deeper process is still required.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Freudian slip.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: We will see. How many people work in the finance department?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: About 38. In the course of this afternoon's meeting, we have discussed persons A, B and C. That is three people. That is quite a high percentage. It is almost 10% of the staffing levels of the department. I am concerned because what I am hearing from the witnesses is that in the case of person A, the person was unwell. In the case of persons B and C, they were, the witnesses allege,...