Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 May 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology
9:00 am
Mr. Paul Gallagher:
I wanted to clarify that the finance committee is the finance committee of the governing body. The members of the committee are governing body members who are external members. We felt the governing body members represented did not have enough financial qualification or experience. The committee's terms of reference allow it to co-opt an external member to provide specialist information.
That is what we did. The committee decided-----