Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason there is no borrowing framework in place for IOTs, as there is for universities, whereby they can borrow autonomously from private sources independently of general government, in view of the fact that there is no statutory distinction between IOTs and universities; and his views the introduction of a borrowing framework for IOTs to enable them to borrow autonomously. [30730/16]

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