Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HEA - Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

While it was not a subsidiary, and not a formal guarantee, it was a letter of comfort and there would have been litigation had the college not respected it. These matters were dealt with by Mr. Quigley in his report. Subsequent to the Quigley report, the individual companies became subsidiaries of the college and then were consolidated for the first time in the 2013 to 2014 financial statements.