Professor Matthew Sadlier:

That is a very difficult one to answer. Ultimately, it is a contract. People will want to make sure what they are being offered is the contract on paper. When people go to renew their contract they have to go through their work plan. It is a cumbersome process. As with all bureaucracies I am sure there is a way, once people have had a meeting with their manager, of getting it approved at the higher level. I presume, as with all bureaucracies, there is probably some way of streamlining it a bit. By the very nature of the fact it is an employment contract with what the terms and conditions will be for the next 20 years or so, most people do take a period of time to consider it and they want to flesh it out. There could probably be some streamlining but ultimately I am not sure how it could be done.