Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 183

In page 67, line 30, to delete “The” and substitute the following:

“(1) The”.

Amendment No. 183 is a technical amendment to allow for the insertion, under amendment No. 187, of another subsection, relating to Standing Orders, into the Second Schedule to the Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992 in respect of governing bodies, whereby any Standing Orders for the regulation of procedure and business or regulations for the conduct of the affairs of a college which were made before coming into operation of the amended Second Schedule shall continue in being but may be amended or revoked as required. This amendment and the majority of the grouped amendments are technical in nature and were previously either agreed on Committee Stage or were brought forward on Report Stage of the Technological Universities Bill 2015.

Amendments Nos. 184, 192 and 196 are technical drafting amendments to delete the word "dishonesty, or" and insert "dishonesty,". brought forward on Report Stage of the Technological Universities Bill 2015.

Amendments Nos. 188 and 189 are technical amendments in line with similar provisions in section 12, where more than one member of a particular group and, in these amendments, academic staff and undergraduate students, respectively, may be determined and either elected to the governing body by the academic staff of the college or nominated to the governing body by the students union in accordance with its own procedures.

Amendments Nos. 190 and 191 are technical amendments to delete "of the Act of 2012" and "of the Act of 1992" respectively. These amendments were previously brought forward on Report Stage of the Technological Universities Bill 2015.

The purpose of amendments Nos. 185, 193 and 197 is to update standard references to the Companies Act in the revised Schedules to be inserted into the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 and the Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992 and in Schedule 1 in relation to the governing body of a technological university. These amendments were previously brought forward on Report Stage of the Technological Universities Bill.

The purpose of amendments Nos. 187 and 195 is to insert into the Second Schedule of both the Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992 and the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 relating to governing bodies the provision that any Standing Orders for the regulation of procedure and business or regulations for the conduct of the affairs of a college made before the coming into operation of the amended Second Schedule shall continue in being but may be amended or revoked, as required.

Amendments Nos. 186, 194 and 198 make clear that governing bodies, as well as making rules, can also amend or revoke these rules.