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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to note there is someone on the board - I will not attempt to pronounce the name - from the United Kingdom, someone from Queen's University Belfast and someone else from Amsterdam. I can understand that Professor Marijk van der Wende would incur higher travel expenses to get here. It does not seem excessive in the context of people travelling from the United Kingdom and Belfast to come to meetings. I note a number of HEA board members come from Donegal and Sligo, as well as from Amsterdam. I give the HEA credit that from what I can see, it appears modest enough in view of the distance people are obliged to travel.