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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)

Paul McAuliffe: When would it be expected that the next valuation would be obtained in respect of the site? Is there a routine process for valuing it?

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)

Paul McAuliffe: Planning is a significant risk for Rhebogue. If planning permission is not granted or does not allow the university to proceed with the project as proposed, what is the proposal for the site?

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)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. The question is what the proposal is.

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)

Paul McAuliffe: To be fair, my question was, should planning permission not be approved, what is the proposal or plan B?

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)

Paul McAuliffe: The current strategy is to push through and hope for the best.

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)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. What I am asking relates to decisions Professor Kilcommins is making. For the current plan, should planning permission not be approved, what is the proposal for the site?

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)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no contingency plan in place at this moment.

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)

Paul McAuliffe: I argue that hoping you will be successful is not a contingency plan.

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)

Paul McAuliffe: The witnesses have to accept that if the planning process in its entirety is exhausted and if permission is not granted, there will be a significant threat to an asset of the university. I was impressed by Mr. Kelly's presentation on risk. I am highlighting a current risk that the witnesses do not appear to have taken on board. I ask them to do that.

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Before I go into questioning, it occurs to me that there is not an answer to this question that could be produced for the committee on the amount of money this governance issue is going to cost the taxpayer. We have it in black and white in terms of what it is costing us in impairments and so on, but I would love to know how much it cost to produce the special report for the C and AG. I...

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is she a full professor or associate professor?

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Can Professor Laffan tell me at what point on the scale?

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think it is €175,000 since January 2024, if I am correct, and if people are on the same pay scale as Dublin City University, DCU, which is what I was looking up. Therefore, the step-down has been to €175,000 per year. Can Professor Laffan describe to me her duties?

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: She will be; there is no department of visual culture.

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I can tell Professor Laffan that if people from any of the technological universities are watching this debate, who are killing themselves to get professorial roles in place, which Deputy Verona Murphy will know well about in the context of South East Technological University, SETU, it will hugely stick in their craw. I accept what Professor Laffan is saying, but it is very difficult to...

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have reviewed both opening statements, and what I found difficult to accept was this idea that there was a level of benign incompetence that happened here and that we should accept that a bunch of bad decisions were made by people who were acting in good faith. There was a deliberately manufactured sense of haste in both of these cases. They were brought to the governing authority with the...

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A recurring feature in Irish political life is that we get these things and then people sail away into the sunset and we do not actually see anyone held to account in any way, shape or form, which is very frustrating. I want to ask Dr. Wall about section 64. I know he is in a peculiar position because he is expecting this process to come to a conclusion relatively soon and therefore 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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How long does the HEA expect to be centrally involved in this?

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. We have a long way to go with it. In his opening statement, the Comptroller and Auditor General identified some issues regarding calculation of remuneration for senior staff. Has this been resolved or is it a continuing practice? Has this issue been unpicked or do we still have this legacy?

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am referring to the higher than normal awards of professional added years for professional purposes. Has this been addressed?