Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019

9:30 am

Mr. William Beausang:

The principle underpinning the Bill is to provide explicit powers for the HEA to carry out roles it is already carrying out in a significant way. That is a significant objective and a significant priority in the Bill. In regard to how we address concerns about governance issues in institutions, in the published heads a number of steps are being proposed that would be captured in the legislation, that is, a kind of an escalation path, I suppose, in terms of what would happen in a scenario like the one we are talking about this morning, where there was a concern around governance in an institution. They would include the provision of expert assistance, putting-----

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