Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

HEA Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

We are looking for the capacity to send investigators into universities, if needs be. Deputy Connolly will know this has been a significant gap in the past. It is a kind of zero or nuclear option in the Universities Act 1997. I refer to the visitor function. That was one aspect. We also talked about regulation of the system and looked around the world at what other jurisdictions were doing and the different types of regulation. We looked at the models in New Zealand Hong Kong and the recent change in the UK etc. We advised or gave a view on some of the different systems because it is a trade-off, as Mr. Beausang said a moment ago, as to how far to go and-----

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