Dr. Alan Wall:

That is a slightly different thing but yes, one of the things we will be looking at... What we do is we get an application and we play it very straight there. We get an application on behalf of the Minister to go through a process to see if the conglomeration is capable of meeting the requirements. That is what we manage. We manage that process. There is an independent panel and international experts and we manage that. The university - or rather the conglomeration, before it is a university, organises itself, that is part of what it does, in terms of meeting the criteria. Thus if it hires advice then it hires advice and it is not something we generally get into. We go through the process and then we advise the Minister whatever the outcome is.

There is an ongoing discussion in the technological universities space about what the structure of a technological university should look like. That is a live discussion and we are playing a part in that. We are part of a group that has asked the OECD to look at what the structure looks like for technological universities across Europe. We are, therefore, in that space and as Deputy Carthy knows from other briefings, we are not really in the contract terms and conditions space or industrial relations, IR, space. We are playing a role in looking at a new university and what the structure should look like and that is an ongoing discussion, if that answers the Deputy's question.