Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

HEA Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

That is the territory of the further education and training sector and SOLAS, to be clear. On the question about UL, the report goes back a few years. There were a number of attempts to access UL that either were not received or were not complied with. I imagine it was then that the HEA understood it did not have power with regard to universities, at least, because it was clear the Universities Act prevented it. The power has moved on and been built up subsequently with the institutes of technology and so on, which comprise separate legislation, which the WIT case made clear. It has been a process of becoming clearer over the past couple of years since about 2016, when the UL report was published.

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