 It was found that this breached the policy but that the appointment was valid, and the non-declaration was a "genuine omission or oversight"  and did not warrant substantial action.This finding lead to a letter of resignation from another of the three Vice-Principals, Paul Hagan, who condemned RGU for failing to punish the pair, stating that this damaged the institution ("In the future, other staff may use the defence that they ‘forgot’ when challenged in investigations and it will be difficult then to sanction them ... having failed to sanction members of the Executive.