Dr. Niall Kennedy:

Yes and throughout the UK. There are significant problems with precarity. Recently there has been a major strike throughout the UK by the University and College Union, UCU, first because of pension issues for academic rights but also because of precarity. The statistics are that about 50% of teaching in the Republic of Ireland is done by precarious workers. I do not have a figure specific to Northern Ireland but in the UK the figure is as bad or even worse.