Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
I think for 2016-17 it is four months for the universities and three months for the IoTs. I took a pragmatic view that because there had been a problem there was no point in setting a three month deadline when they were six, eight and nine months out. I started with six months for the universities and five months for IoTs and signalled two to three years ahead that it was coming down a month every year until we reach three months.