Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the information on employment. Has that been forthcoming from the various institutions and colleges? The previous Committee of Public Accounts got detailed information because we probed the ratio of permanent to temporary contracts. We are not talking about visiting lecturers but people who are being exploited. For example, they do not get holiday entitlements or anything like that. We are then wondering why standards are slipping and institutions are falling down rankings etc. because there is very little research backing up contact hours and so on and so forth.

How forthcoming are the universities because we had to really drag this out by forensically examining elements? We saw a very inappropriate ratio as a result. Are these institutions forthcoming?