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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)

Catherine Murphy: We know how unacceptable that was. Who were the auditors when the Horgan's Quay was identified?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Who is it now?

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)

Catherine Murphy: They are obviously holding back. Everybody is concerned about their reputations here, including external auditors. It is taking longer than one would have expected to have that audit. Clearly, it is not available to us. We always find it unsatisfactory when we are not looking at the most up-to-date set of accounts in front of the Committee of Public Accounts. Is there likely to be an...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Is it both?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Presumably, this is not the first time Mr. Kelly has been employed as a corporate secretary?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Even though Mr. Kelly was fairly new to it, he had experience.

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)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to clarify that. I will leave it at 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: 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?