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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)

Brian Stanley: -----by the board of governors that Ms Harney chairs and that has 27 members. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: No one on the board, including Ms Harney as the chair, has seen it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: This was available before legal proceedings.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Before the legal papers were lodged.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have requested these documents on numerous occasions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The work of the committee is being impeded. This is a report into the spending of substantial public funding in Limerick. It is an intolerable situation by a body that is accountable to the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Oireachtas through the Committee on Public Accounts. We have not seen that report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We expect a copy of that to be here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can I ask Ms Harney-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Who has seen it? Has Professor Mey seen it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Professor Mey has seen it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The chair and the governing body have not seen it even though they commissioned it. That could not happen in any other realm, whereby a company, public body, local authority or someone who commissioned a report would not be allowed to see it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: It makes a nonsense of the procedures at the University of Limerick if this is how business is done there.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will be sending-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will be requesting a copy of the report. The members have asked for it on a number of occasions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Harney.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The situation is that one of the people who would be adversely affected by all of this is a former employee who has lodged papers with the High Court because, obviously, the contents of the report may put that person in a bad light, or that person may feel that. However, we can only surmise all of this because we have not seen it. If the chairperson of the board of governors has not seen it,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: A report was commissioned.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I do not want to hold up the meeting because there are other Deputies to contribute. I am sure the chancellor wants to see the report. She has outlined her position, and I am sure she is like the rest of us in this regard. Is it the case that the chancellor is not trusted with the report? Is that the situation we have here? Why would the chancellor of the university not have seen this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I am sorry but I am asking the president. Is the chancellor not trusted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Allow the chancellor to answer.