Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

HEA Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

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

I ask Mr. Beausang to stop for a moment because I am going run out of time and I have a number of other points to make. The HEA will make that call at some point. The call will be that it cannot publish the report, based on the legal advice and the advice of the Attorney General. Dr. Love said that, in principle, he wants to publish the report but that it may be out of his hands; it may not be possible. In that scenario, we should not leave the matter there. The committee can form its own opinion, but in my view we should not leave it there. We are going to have to look at the options. The options I can see are the ministerial or departmental option; or alternatively, some other body. The issues have not gone away. I know that Mr. Ó Foghlú cannot answer the question, but perhaps-----

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