Dr. Deirdre Lillis:

As part of the process outlined by Mr. Howard, the peer review panels would need to satisfy themselves regarding the research environment in the universities. If, for example, they are going to hire ten postdoctoral researchers and recruit 15 PhD students, those students would have to be well looked after. We have never gone as far as telling an institution it must provide accommodation as part of that. They are autonomous institutions and are probably balancing the need of first-year undergraduates with those of PhD students and international students. That all goes into the mix. There is a mechanism to impose conditions on the grant of research funding but we have never gone that far.