Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
HEA - Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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My last question is a general one on pensions. Universities are responsible for their own pension funds and their future pension funds but the Department is responsible for the institutes of technology. What is the reason for that variation? Universities must build that into their future costs yet the institutes of technology are the responsibility of the Department? Why is that?