Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will hold over the noting of the UCC accounts until next week. There are a few queries that Mr. McCarthy might help us with. It is unusual. We holding over the accounts of the Legal Aid Board and UCC until next week. The witness might come back to us. As Deputy Kelly has said, when people are saying their organisation is substantially funded by the taxpayer and it has another minority line of funding, it all goes into one pot. This committee is not going to accept the phrase that it was borne by the university from non-Exchequer funding unless it can be proved. We cannot accept a statement like that with zero proof. We will be saying-----