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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: Typically, the university is relying on the fact An Bord Pleanála will not be back for two or three years. There is no plan in place for a rejection of the 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)

Verona Murphy: Initially, Mr. Kelly said that disclosures are made to HR. 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: Has the same person been in HR for a number of years? Has that person changed? With regard to the disclosures we talked about pre-2020 and the for the past couple of years, are the disclosures being made to the same person?

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: Will Professor Kilcommins repeat 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)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Flaherty.

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 was he removed?

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?

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 right. I recall hearing that. Were disclosures made to him that were never dealt with? Do we know?

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: If one was made recently and it has taken 15 months, what is the normal timeline for a disclosure to be dealt with and finalised?

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: To be honest and real about it, if we do have a timeline, you are at nothing if it is open-ended and you have not put that process in that place, as everybody combined here together. That would have been a starting point.

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 there are. However, we have to prioritise. We have counted three people out on full pay, whether it be sick leave, garden leave or whatever. It is costing in the region of millions of euro per annum as long as you not getting to grips with this and not sorting it out.

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 correct because we are reading it. It is astronomical. The headlines in the papers tomorrow and the news will be extraordinary. It will look like nobody cares. There must be timelines and efficiency with regard to these complaints and how they are dealt with it. I understand how Professor Laffan put it and how she dealt with the former president. It was probably more...

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: So it is not contractual rather it is of goodwill in nature.

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: Is Professor Laffan not able to answer simple questions honestly? The question is that it is just goodwill, is it not? If you decided as a committee, a governing authority or whatever, to say that you do not believe she should take a sabbatical, you do not want her to take a sabbatical and you are not giving her a sabbatical, what would happen?

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 what I said. I asked what would have happened if Professor Laffan would have said that she is not getting a sabbatical. It is not a contractual arrangement, is 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)

Verona Murphy: It is just goodwill because it is the norm. However, we do not have to follow norms in employment law; we follow the law. It is not a law. It is not contractual. Basically it was up to you to say "yea" or "nay".

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 all - there is no need. I am just pointing out where we are and perhaps those are the things that are required to be changed because it is costing a significant amount of taxpayers' money. It is not all just UL. It is not all garnered from students, foreign students, student fees and so on. At the end of the day, it is taxpayers' money, so we need to look at that. I am not going...

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: Sorry. What was it then?

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: But Professor Mey's did.

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: Obviously, there was some reasoning behind it, but it was dealt with. Somebody had to be ridiculed in HR on that basis. Who provided the contract?