Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

As the president has said, in some cases the costs are shared among existing staff and sometimes additional staff are brought in to backfill the positions. For students to get the best teaching and the best research it is essential that the staff would take sabbaticals and, for example, when they go to Australia they would perhaps acquire a new technique in a given scientific discipline, form new networks or learn new-----