Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 21:

To insert the following new subsection (1):“(1) A Technological University may suspend or dismiss any employee but only in accordance with procedures and subject to any conditions made following consultation through normal industrial relation structures operating in the technological university with Trade Unions which procedures or conditions may provide for the delegation of powers relating to suspension or dismissal to the President and shall provide for the tenure of officers.”.

This brings us back to the concerns of people who are working currently in the institutes of technology. In the event of any case of dismissal, is there a commitment the normal industrial relations structures will be followed? The concern is that this protection is not there and that is the reason we were asked to put forward an amendment.