Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HEA - Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

I do not believe we are. There were some legacy issues. Mr. Brownlee outlined five or six very specific reasons that have driven it. With the Comptroller and Auditor General, we have brought this down hard on the institutions. Many of them are progressing this and there is a catch up taking place as we speak. We will be in a much better place within a short time. They are responding and we are applying the pressure. I do not believe we are being soft.