Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Is the Deputy asking about access to journals and so on? I have a couple of observations in that respect. Among the universities there is a system for accessing journals; I think it is called IReL. It is being managed by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth on behalf of all of the universities. It provides the network for it. It is funded by the HEA to collaboratively provide access for all of the universities. I do not think the institutes of technology have access to it, but whether there is scope to extend it is something that could be addressed with the HEA. It is just a suggestion.