Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to go on to another observation made in the report, on page 43, on the measuring of staff time as part of a revised costing model. The point the report made was that a new system was brought in to better allocate funding from the Exchequer to universities. It wanted to come up with a way to understand the use of staff time and the resulting outputs. One of the observations in the conclusion is that a fundamental building block within the model is staff time, particularly how it is allocated. The report states that in early 2009, the staff representative bodies recommended their members should not engage or co-operate with data collection. It went on to state that the inclusion of actual hours worked in the form would facilitate the evaluation of the contribution of individual academics. Where does that stand now?