Accounts submitted to the Oireachtas this week reveal that the University of Galway recently overpaid an unnamed employee by more than €100,000.

According to the notes, the overpayment took place between January 2019 and February 2021, and the university is “endeavouring to agree a repayment plan” with the individual.

The Oireachtas received its annual report and consolidated financial statements this week for the academic year that ends in September 2021.

The Comptroller and Auditor General, who reviewed the accounts and found the overpayment, noted it and blamed it on “weaknesses in system controls” at the college.

The university discovered that an employee had received a salary that was slightly over $100,000 during that fiscal year, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

The report does not name the employee, but the Comptroller and Auditor General stated that the college has “taken steps to improve its controls to avoid a re – occurrence of this situation.”

A spokesperson for the university said the overpayment had been picked up internally and would be “recouped in full.”