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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)

Brian Stanley: There is one at €130,000 that is paused. I understand there is good reason for 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)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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)

Brian Stanley: Briefly, as we are about to conclude shortly, I note that the Comptroller and Auditor General audited the financial statements of UL for the year ending 30 September 2020, as he is required to do. That was a while ago now. In that endeavour, four full years ago, he drew attention to, and I will not read all the detail out, procurement non-compliance, and everything involved in that, and 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)

Brian Stanley: What were you doing?

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)

Brian Stanley: What was your role from 2017 to 2020?

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)

Brian Stanley: You would have been aware there were several allegations regarding the overriding of controls.

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)

Brian Stanley: You would have been alerted to all 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)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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)

Brian Stanley: Senior managers breached the university's policies and procedures in the areas of recruitment and procurement. You would have been aware of all that context.

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)

Brian Stanley: You would have been aware of it, though.

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)

Brian Stanley: You would also have been aware of the former president's remuneration, and the resignation in August 2020, including the payment amounting to four months' salary, some €65,355.

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)

Brian Stanley: Did you do anything about it at the time?

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)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Field for that information. That concludes our questioning. We would like a number of pieces of information to be sent to the secretariat, which it has kept a note of. I thank the witnesses from the HEA, the Department and UL for attending and for preparing the information. We know it is midstream in a lot of work that is ongoing in terms of examinations, investigations,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; consideration of our work programme; and any other business. The first item is the minutes. The minutes of our meeting of 26 September 2024 have been circulated to members. Do any members wish to raise any matters on the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed as normal?...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: Do any members wish to address issues in the financial statements? No. They are all okay. Can we agree and note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the accounts and financial statements are published as part of our minutes. Moving on to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion at the meeting will be dealt with in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: As I recall, a number of the Deputy's constituents made several complaints.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: I think the answer is that conventional slaughterhouses and other facilities for slaughtering animals were being used where a horse had to be put down. One of those facilities was engaged in doing that on a temporary basis. We can ask for an update on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: The reason I raise the traceability issue is that my understanding is that all horses in the State are microchipped, or are supposed to be. Many of these are coming from within the horseracing sector, so one would think they would be microchipped. The Department needs to say why they are not. If one is putting in place a microchip system, it is a bit like having car tax without having a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am inclined to figure out what has happened here. Surely the microchip and passport system would say who the owner is and give their address. It is not as if it is 20 horses. It is 20,000 that have gone and my understanding is that we do not know where. It does not appear there is database. What progress has been made on putting one in place? Why is there not a database in place?...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is the nub and crooks of it. The Deputy had a question as well as on what slaughtering facilities are being used now. We will ask about that as well.