Dr. Hugh Brady:

Let us take the cases of persons who are good professors in their discipline and at the top of the scale on a salary of €140,000 a year. The issue arises where one wants that individual to step up to serve as head of the medical school or the business school, where he or she is moving from being an expert and responsible for teaching and researching in his or her discipline or programme to managing a unit with a turnover of €30 million to €40 million. He or she must manage a unit where one has set very aggressive targets, particularly in the current climate, to increase international student recruitment, yet in the current climate, since the withdrawal of allowances, we have zero ways of incentivising such a person.