Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019

9:30 am

Dr. Alan Wall:

To be clear, it is not different. The Deputy asked me two questions. He asked if we had any role in the appointment and if we were aware of it. The answer is "no". The appointment happened. The individual in question does liaise sometimes with our people. There have been conversations around the preparation of a proposal, which is part of the role, as I understand it. That has happened. I am not pretending otherwise. We would have had that kind of contact with others previously. That is a separate question. To be clear, institutions sometimes get advice on how they are going to prepare an application to be a TU. Representatives of the institutions talk to us and they have talked to my staff. I am aware of it.

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