UL faces sanctions over €1.7m deals for former staff

The University of Limerick faces possible sanctions for misleading the Department of Education and others over severance payments to former staff who were then rehired.

A damning report showed two of the payments totalling around €650,000 were among eight severance or compromise deals totalling €1.7m.

The deals agreed or offered from 2007 to 2015 did not have proper department approval, some breached public pay policy guidelines, and those in which employees were subsequently rehired are to be subject of a further investigation.