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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: Of what?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: I am reliably informed there are no visual arts courses in UL. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: That is not the question. The question is whether it is correct that she is the professor of visual arts but that there are no visual arts courses run by the University of Limerick. Is that correct? It is a binary question.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: We have a professor of visual arts and no programme for her to engage with.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: I want to go back. I am very aware that most of what has gone before has nothing to do with many of the people sitting before us. However, it does not mean that everybody did not have awareness. I appreciate that. I am not sure what qualifications are required for the governing authority because I believe it is made up of students, professors and whatever. In the case of Mr. Kelly, he...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: It is actually a huge responsibility. He is responsible to Revenue and to everybody for everything that goes forward. When the presentation was made and the price was given, who recorded the minutes?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Kelly's office, not Mr. Kelly himself.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: It would be a major red flag for someone not to insert the valuation price at a minuted meeting where a presentation was made, where money of this nature, exorbitant money, was being spent. Obviously, people will make up their own minds. At what stage was it recognised by Mr. Kelly that stamp duty was going to be on top of this price?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: When he put the proposal together to bring it to the executive committee, it was not his role to include-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: What? Sorry?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: What was Mr. Kelly's job then, from the perspective of, he sat in on the presentation-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: He took everybody at their word. He saw nothing unusual, heard nothing unusual, as far as he was concerned everything that was in what was presented, he took to be for real and kosher.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: Never mind who presented it. Mr. Kelly suspected nothing except bona fides.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: I know. I am asking if there was anything in it that would have raised a suspicion that that was not fact.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: That is not the word Mr. Kelly used when he spoke to Deputy Catherine Murphy. So the question is - was it presented in a way that it misrepresented, misinformed or was prepared to mislead? Do not dilly dally.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: The public is watching. Your reputations are going to be going forward. Does Mr. Kelly feel he was misled in his position?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: Does that not mean he was misled?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: They knowingly were factually inaccurate. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: I would just call it that Mr. Kelly was misled and whatever the scenario will end up to be when the investigations are complete, I cannot understand that he was not forthcoming in saying that he was misled. I just do not understand that. It is very simple. We were misled but we asked the questions. When it comes down to Mr. Lemass and Dr. Alan Wall, I am voicing what I voiced at the last...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: An internal investigation. He is being paid. Was his office renovated in the last two years?