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Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I quoted the same section.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I read out the same section exactly to emphasise the point. Yes, it says all areas are included. What it does not say, however, is that they will all be treated equally or, if not equally, close to equally, or that there will be a balance in how they are treated. I acknowledge that no one thing is elevated in the Bill, but the concern is that one or two may be elevated in practice, and...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 79: In page 31, line 20, after “independent” to insert “, impartial”.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 80: In page 31, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(7) The Agency shall ensure that in the allocation of resources and the design, disbursal and administration of schemes that the principle of parity of esteem between fields of activity and disciplines is upheld.”. I will withdraw the amendment and bring it back on Report Stage for...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 81: In page 31, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(7) The Agency shall have due regard to the need to ensure that the range of schemes put in place under this Part includes schemes of differing scales and purposes, including smaller schemes and targeted schemes which facilitate good quality outreach, research networking and education...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 82: In page 32, line 26, after “independent” to insert “, impartial”. I am moving this amendment but the Minister of State previously made strong points on a similar amendment around the language of “impartial” versus “independent”, so I signal that I will withdraw it. The argument the Minister made was strong...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 84: In page 33, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(iv) the employment conditions of researchers at the applicant body,”.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 85: In page 33, after line 41, to insert the following: “(g) to ensure that persons carrying out research funded under this Part are in receipt of attendant employment rights and protections, in line with the Salzburg Principles,”. I withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to introduce it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 85a: In page 35, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(6) The Board shall make regulations regarding conditions of funding and a process for withdrawal of funding from research projects which may contribute to contravention of international law, including contraventions of rulings of the International Court of Justice and the European Court of...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I report progress.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I highlight a situation that has been developing further over the past week in our universities. I am a National University of Ireland Senator. I rarely speak about the universities exclusively but, right now, they are at the centre of some of the debate and activism we are seeing from the public demanding action in respect of Gaza and in terms of international human rights and...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 42: In page 12, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(h) in co-operation with An tÚdarás, promote, support and develop tangible plans to end precarious work in the higher education sector;”. I withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 44: In page 12, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(k) to promote and support the development of public-public partnerships in accordance with section 50;”. Amendment No. 44 will introduce a new function which will require that the agency will "promote and support the development of public-public partnerships in accordance with...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is scope within section 8. Section 49, which the Minister of State referenced, talks about agreements or partnerships between the agency and other bodies. I recognise that it provides that the agency may partner with a body, whether public or private, but what we were trying to get at is encouraging and supporting public-public partnerships between, for example, research or higher...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Give me one moment.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry. I did not want to withdraw amendment No. 44. I was going to withdraw a later one. It is fine. The Acting Chairperson can go ahead. I can come back to the same point in a different way.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 45: In page 12, to delete lines 22 to 25 and substitute the following: “(l) to promote and support the undertaking in the State of research and innovation which furthers climate action, the protection and enhancement of biodiversity and implementation and achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;”.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 46: In page 12, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(m) to enable and assist research sharing and technology transfer between designated higher education institutions, research bodies and public bodies in line with and with due regard to Article 4(1)(g) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;”.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 48: In page 13, line 21, after “a” to insert “reasonable”.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 49: In page 13, line 23, to delete “and”.