Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

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

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

The really important thing here is for colleges to generate the attractiveness to external investment that will bring in more and more investment from multinationals and from venture capitalists and others that will create the jobs. The association that Deputy Connolly refers to is unfortunate but I want to stress it is a core objective of the higher education system and research and development policy in this country, as it is in a lot of advanced countries, to drive this-----