Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion

12:00 pm

Mr. Tom Boland:

While Mr. Stewart Roche might have the details, I sympathise with the Deputy as the higher education system is bedevilled with acronyms and too often, we assume people know what they are. The IRCHSS is the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and the other one is the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. They had been-----