Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills
Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage
11:00 am
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source
Did the issue of democratic accountability arise? That was always the basis of the understanding and the reason for local authority representation. This provides for democratic accountability for the community and has been the practice to date. Why, therefore, is the Department deciding to do away with that principle?
PJ Coleman
Posted on 16 Jan 2016 9:07 am (Report this comment)
Well yes, except that the main competency in a higher level institution comes from academics: it is they who teach, research and administrate.