University College Dublin staff held a protest outside the Minister for Education's constituency office in Dun Laoghaire this afternoon over a decision to withhold a 3 per cent pay rise.
The pay rise - part of partnership agreement, Towards 2016 - was due to come into force on December 1 st, 2006.
SIPTU, which represents the protesting staff said in statement: "The situation is all the more unbelievable because the pay rise is considerably less than the rate of inflation, currently running at 5 per cent."
"Staff in UCD wish to bring it to the attention of the Minister of Education that it is unacceptable that a committee which has no representative of university staff on it and who make no effort to communicate with university staff should adjudicate on our pay levels."
The Department of Education said the Minister had no role in the decision, which was independent.