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- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: When we have to extract information it feels as if we are not being given the picture and that we have to paint the picture ourselves from the details that we extract. The approach was bad. People are losing faith in institutions, whether it is the Garda Síochána, religious organisations or the likes of the banks, and the universities sector has certainly played a role in...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Did the IMI dictate the terms?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: UCC did not have to do this.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: We have just been given a document from the Department of Education and Skills about re-engagement of staff, which was something that featured in the "RTE Investigates" programme. The programme revealed that certain people were re-engaged by the University of Limerick the day after they retired. The timing raised questions. The university has accepted that these matters need to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Generally, are there consequences?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Does the Department press that? Has it pressed that?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Is it something to which consideration would be given?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Brownlee spoke about EUROSTAT looking at the universities. What prompted that? Is that something that was reviewed before?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Do we know what the combined liability of the universities is?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I would appreciate that. Turning to UCC, Professor O'Shea was at pains to say on several occasions that public funding was less than 50% and that the majority of funding was not coming from the public purse. UCC has picked us up on that a few times and I understand there is an issue with the funding of third level, but we will leave that aside. Would the campus exist without the public purse?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: What proportion of the campus has been constructed? Presumably, most of it was constructed using public funds. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It would be fair to say that it was.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It is not the only consideration and a range of other aspects of a university have value, including knowledge, reputation, etc., but the campus would not have been built without the investment from the public purse. I will keep my next question as short as possible. It relates to the IMI and the pension liability. How many people were involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Were those people who had already retired or-----
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: What type of pension scheme was it?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: How are those future pension liabilities funded?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: When did the separation between the IMI and its assets and liabilities occur?
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It was not separated before that.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I will leave it at that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I want to address my remarks to Professor Norton. Did he watch the "RTE Investigates" programme? Was there anything in it that surprised him or on which he would like to comment?