Professor Alan Irvine:

I will take the question on recruiting to the west of Ireland. We would argue that we need to decentralise the recruitment process. It is overly centralised at the minute and our view is that the people in Clare, Limerick and Galway know best how to recruit people into their system and should be given the flexibility to do so, including with regard to contracts. It should not be a centralised, one-size-fits-all model because that definitely gets in the way of people moving to those locations.