Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills
Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage
12:15 pm
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Again, this is in the context of financial accounting. We see it in the Committee of Public Accounts when, for example, we have Secretaries General who, when acting as accounting officer in that context, do not talk about the policies but specifically about the financial and accounting element. I think the Deputy is forming a more general interpretation than the actual wording of the Schedule suggests. "Under this paragraph" is a crucial element.