Dr. Colm O'Reardon:

I have had personal experience of seeing how this works. It is absolutely an issue. What struck me when I started to look at it was the question of where the data is. There are differences of opinion about the scale of the problem. We need to address that data problem. I do not think we have evidence. Part of the extra funding that we are putting in will mean that universities will be in a position to increase the number of full-time posts, which will partially address this, but it is an issue.