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. Tim Conlon:

That will be a matter for the Minister to decide, but normally an application would come in, we would put together an international assessment panel to assess the application, make recommendations to the Minister in fairly short order, and the Minister could then designate within the space of two months or so of the application arriving. It could stand designated as a technological university early in 2019 were the application to be successful, with the idea it would be recruiting students by September 2019.