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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: That is, unfortunately, a weak answer. It was going pretty well until then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: We have made the effort to be here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Yes, thanks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: If somebody needs a break, that is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Okay. On that last question, it is quite obvious that there was a failure in the governing authority to ask questions with regard to this issue. We could not possibly say that the right documentation was not put in front of them. However, if a governing authority has enough people with enough financial background, in particular, they would know the documentation is in front of them in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: So is the total €5.3 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Is that the loss?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: There is a huge governance issue here. From my perspective and from all the knowledge I have in relation to UL, there is quite good academia and research there. The production is fantastic, and I say that as somebody who lives locally. For all of that to continue, however, corporate governance has to dramatically improve because there will be reputational damage, as Deputy Catherine Murphy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Professor Kilcommins might come to my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Professor Kilcommins does not see the need for any changes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I understand all that. What if Professor Kilcommins had a crystal ball, for instance? Does Professor Kilcommins see the exact same team in place in two or three years' time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: The reason I asked Professor Kilcommins the same question essentially in different ways is because people who knew want me to ask. I am just telling Professor Kilcommins that. I have given them both a chance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: One last question, which I do not think has been asked by anyone, is a question maybe we should have started off with. Given the situation we have with accommodation in Ireland, was there any consideration given to why a university was buying accommodation such as this in the first place? I know the pressure is being put on by the former Minister, now Taoiseach, and all of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I had to get a bus service from Tipperary for you, but anyway. It is working well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: The point is there will be some people who are watching in saying that given the accommodation crisis, there is a debate regarding the need for people to have housing versus in some cases student housing. I am wondering was that prefaced in the discussions beforehand. Obviously, there have been planning issues consequential on the basis that the planning authority has a different view as to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I will conclude by thanking the witnesses. In my time in PAC, they have been one of the more open groups of representatives that have come in front of us. I want to acknowledge that.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: International Protection (9 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: 187. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 2 May 2024, if she will outline the progress that has been made by Fáilte Ireland under the just transition fund to purchase and run a hotel (details supplied); and if an application has been made by Failte Ireland to the fund. [21142/24]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: The streets of my home town Nenagh will be packed on Saturday with people protesting against the Government and the HSE and the scandalous decision to take over our new nursing home, which the Government of which I and the Taoiseach were a part actually funded. On 24 April 2024, I raised this issue with the Taoiseach in this Chamber. I asked him where the loved ones of the 50 families were...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Before Saturday?