Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

I think there is some confusion. What I believe I communicated to the committee yesterday was that there were scenarios in which people in management positions in universities could be researchers with an involvement in spin-out companies, etc. and that there were processes for them to step aside from it in order that they managed the conflict of interest.