A chara, - In your edition of March 22nd, you carried an article saying: "It is expected that the review body [on higher remuneration in the public sector] . . . will propose PRP (Performance Related Pay) for professors in its next report."
In your edition of March 23rd, you refer selectively to our news release in response to the article. Apart from dropping the adjective "pure" before "speculation" in alluding to our summation of the situation, you repeat the unsubstantiated assertion that the review body "is widely expected to back PRP for professors". Perhaps you might also let your readers know the fact that we pointed out, viz, that the review body has received no submissions on professorial pay yet.
Nor has it commenced an examination otherwise of the subject. The body will nonetheless no doubt be interested to learn from The Irish Times what it is going to do in the second half of 2007 before it has even begun its task.
Under the obviously self-defensive headline "Professors in dark on pay review" (March 23rd), it seems that all your correspondent has to do is to look into his heart in order to shed light on what is allegedly happening. - Is mise, etc,
DALTÚN Ó CEALLAIGH, General Secretary, Irish Federation of University Teachers, Dublin 2.