Apoligies, Martin.

I want to apoligies to Dr. Martin Butler for blaming him for everything that is wrong with UCD. In fact, I did a quite embarrising mix-up with Dr. Hugh Brady. Dr Butler are the Vice-President for Students, and are THE most active leaders when it comes to communication with the student branch her, hence, he are often held respossible for what the rest of the University Presidency may come up with. However, Dr Hugh Brady...the man who gets a 19 % increase in his salary, bringing it up to €270.000 a year (the salary were €205K when I become president i 2004) due to what is told to be a result of "the changeing nature of the Presidency", and that do not include the free residence in the University Lodge in Greenfield. Dr Brady are the man behind the reorganizing of the University, and one of the hardest defenders of College Fees. There is something with the rhetoric that isn't right:

This is not a restructuring driven by the need for savings. It is
primarily driven by our academic needs and by our need to maximise our teaching and research potential. To do that we need to free up academic staff to participate in those types of activities and yes at the same time to provide the most efficient administrative infrastructure to support them, but it is primarily an academically-driven enterprise

If we can generate a 24/7 twelvemonths a year type of culture we will draw many people onto the campus who may not have been here for many years and who will, for the first time,appreciate what a beautiful campus we have.

UCD is a very strong brand nationally but less so internationally. As wemove into the more competitive international environment, we need to look at the name and consider whether it needs changing. As you know our officialname is University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin. That per se is not ideal. The word college in the North American context can suggest a purely undergraduate teaching institution. You mentioned Newman University and indeed I have heard many other names being brought forward.

"it’s interesting the same issues came up within each of the components of the dialogue process"

We’re talking about maximising the impact of €200 million of taxpayers’ money"

"It is primarily driven by our academic needs and by our need to maximise our teaching and research potential"

"to maximise our academic performance while at the same time obviously lobbying others to invest in us to a greater degree"

Sorry mate, you spent too long time in the US and Harvard. Your in Ireland now, get real, wake up or take your posession of enteprising and fock off. Too bad i'm not here to the spring, this is going to turn nasty.