Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Please come back to me with a note on that. I would love to know its explanation for why that happened in a three-day period and why members of the governance board were brought in that morning and faced with having to make a decision by that evening. Obviously I was not sitting at that meeting myself - it would be an interesting place to be a fly on the wall - but I am reliably informed that is what they were told. They were pushed by senior people in the university and told that this had to be done by that evening because of the owner of the site. Please put that question and come back to me.

As regards the Dunnes Stores site, Deputy Munster fleshed out the issues around the timelines not being met. I cannot get my head around the fact that this has been going on for a long time. I have been aware of it for a considerable period, as have the media. People have been reading about it in newspapers and there have been numerous interactions around it. Why has the HEA not acted before now to get a handle on what is going on down in UL? I find that incredible. It is unacceptable that on the week the HEA comes before the committee, it suddenly decides it will meet with UL next Monday. The red flags are up. There is not one red flag; there is a bundle of them and they have been there for a long time. I will come back in with other questions later.

I will let Deputies in for three minutes each. If they want to come in, I ask them to put up their hands. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.