Dr. Patrick Prendergast:

The money is to be used for student services, in agreement with the students' union and the HEA. Like our colleagues in DCU and UCD, we will agree with the HEA to use that money for those student services. We will take our medicine on this, so to speak, recognising that a bona fide misunderstanding occurred. We had the promotions three months ahead of when the new employment control framework would have allowed it.