Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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The HEA has huge responsibility under a number of Acts, does it not? This has been set out for us very clearly by the Comptroller and Auditor General. It has responsibility under the Higher Education Authority Act, the Universities Act, the Institutes of Technology Act, and then there is the national strategy for higher education published in 2011. This huge responsibility has even been added to. The HEA now has responsibility for strategic development plans; quality assurance procedures; equality and access policy, in which I am particularly interested; and frameworks for salary departures, borrowing, payments to staff by institutional corporations and acquisition of land. I will come back to some of those if I can. Does the HEA have enough staff to carry out its work?