Dr. Ciarán Seoighe:

The Global Research Council is a grouping that represents or works across all the different autonomous funding agencies around the world. It cannot, specifically as a group, tell each individual funder what it must do. It would have sent out standards or agreed principles saying, "We really think you should be doing the following." However, it does not have the powers of an agency to insist that that is done. I take the Deputy's point; as we take this home into our agencies, we can translate the "shoulds" into specifying what is going to happen.