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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Will we all be able to come back to some of the stuff in this report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The one I want to come back to is the clean up of Aughinish but that is for another day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can we hold it over and come back to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On that item, he is accepting the invitation but he is also looking for questions in advance. Presumably we do not do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We want to be fair to them at the same time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What year was the last audit done for the development board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Before that, may I ask one question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What prompted the HEA to seek legal advice in retrospect? Was pressure coming from anywhere to seek that legal advice? We need to know what the drivers are here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What is the Deputy's point? Is it that we are constantly not letting him in before lunch?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We have a separate session in the afternoon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It should be put on the agenda again. I really take exception to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will go back to Mr. O'Toole on what prompted the legal advice. They have expanded on that. Obviously, the HEA initiated this review and had gone a sizeable way and had put funding into it, in staffing and expertise. There was an airing of a preliminary version of the report and then it took some further legal advice. I asked what prompted the legal advice. Was the Higher Education...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We have a very short period of time and I have a lot of questions for the University of Limerick, but I want to dispose of this matter first. Was the nature of the communication with the HEA a "cease and desist" order?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: No but with the HEA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: However, it was a case of "cease and desist" based on questioning the HEA's remit. It then took legal advice. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We might come back to this issue in the afternoon. In regard to the University of Limerick, to many of us on the Committee of Public Accounts it seems as if we are playing a disproportionate role in institutional oversight. That is a criticism of the university, the HEA and the Department of Education and Skills. If these issues are to be caught early, where are the checks and balances...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We are very tight on time. Is the governing body requesting reports? My understanding is this situation may well continue. It may continue to be the case that the governing body is requesting reports and not receiving them. Is Professor Fitzgerald satisfied that this is not happening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I might come back to that issue, but there are a few other questions I want to ask. My next question is directed at the Comptroller and Auditor General. I have been attending this committee for about two years and do not recall the Comptroller and Auditor General ever saying anything similar to what he has said today, that is, that he would have walked away. I am paraphrasing what he said....
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Very well. I refer to the disciplinary code. It sounds to me that it did not allow the University of Limerick to do what might have been done. Has that matter been reviewed? I would like a "Yes" or a "No" answer to that question.