Dr. Patrick Prendergast:

No. The reason we had the meeting with the representatives of the HEA on 16 June 2010 was to resolve the promotions issue at the final university council meeting of that academic year. At that meeting the HEA's view was that it was not unreasonable for the college to proceed with promotions, and staff were informed that they would be promoted. It was after this that we received the letter referred to by the Deputy indicating that if we could not reverse these promotions, action would be taken.