Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the witnesses said earlier that the technological universities were an exciting prospect. I am personally supportive of the Carlow-Waterford one, even though there are reservations and genuine concerns within the institutes. One of these is whether the technological universities will be on a par with existing universities. An example would concern the ability to borrow money and any investment in research and development baseline funding. Does Dr. Love have any idea what the relationship will be and what ability the technological universities will have to borrow money in this way? I understand the institutes of technology cannot borrow money.

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