Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 11, line 28, to delete "the Higher Education Authority Act" and substitute "Údarás um Ard-Oideachas Act".

The reason for this amendment is that I want to delete "the Higher Education Authority Act" and substitute it with "Údarás um Ard-Oideachas Act". This Bill and the 1971 Act create a body whose only legal name is "An t-Údarás um Ard-Oideachas". There is no Higher Education Authority, HEA, established in the Bill or the Act, yet the údarás has referred to itself in branding exclusively as the "HEA" or "the Higher Education Authority". Given the commitment in the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 to naming new State bodies in Irish only, and as a way to reinforce the Irish language in the identity of the body responsible for the regulation and promotion of the Irish language at higher level, the Title of the Bill should reflect the actual title of the body established, following the precedent of the Údarás na Gaeltachta Act 1979. That is my rationale for the amendment.