Dr. Alan Wall:

With regard to changing culture, it will not happen overnight. I take the committee's criticisms but we are being more forensic in how we deal with things. That has certainly been the case over the past two years. We are as worried about precarious employment as we understand the committee to be. We have been very frank that we do not have the data to back this up. We have engaged with the Irish Universities Association, IUA, and the Technological Higher Education Association, THEA, with a view to agreeing a definition so that we can go out and get very specific answers as to the kind of employment that is out there and from where it is paid. That is another issue which has arisen. Is this employment paid through payroll or other means? It may have to do with a registered student who is at an event while in some cases senior counsel may be involved. As we said, we are also getting returns about other things as regards overtime allowances and so on. We are going to get very specific about the questions. We have not asked them before. We should have known but did not. That is what we are trying to do with regard to occasional hours.