Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Horgan:
I had imagined that Dr. Looney would be here and that she would be able to write me notes.
The committee knows all about the gender equality issue. Members know of the issues in Galway. It is not just Galway; it is elsewhere too. It goes back to culture again. I am pretty certain that it concerns the culture within organisations. However, it is one of the elements within our performance metrics now, so we look to see how it is changing. I suspect it will take a little time but it is bound to come to where it should be and probably beyond quite quickly if one considers the demographics of graduates leaving various university areas at the moment. We are working on it.
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