Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HEA - Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

We have been pushing this for several years and the HEA has agreed with the principle that these are resources that are likely to become available to the university. In respect of several universities, and NUIG is a case in point, the strict accounting standard allows them not to consolidate.