Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 182e:

In page 82, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:

“Amendment of section 59 of Act of 2018 96. Section 59 of the Act of 2018 is amended by—

(a) the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a):

“(aa) made by the dissolved body as a designated awarding body for the purposes of the Act of 2012,”,

(b) the designation of that section (as amended by paragraph (a)) as subsection (1),

and

(c) the addition of the following subsections:

“(2) Subject to subsection (3), every programme of education and training that is included in the business and operation of the applicant higher education provider the subject of an order under section 44F, immediately before the day appointed by that order was provided by the applicant higher education provider and led to an award—

(a) made by the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland under section 50 of the Act of 2012,

(b) made by a relevant designated awarding body within the meaning of the Act of 2012 pursuant to an arrangement under section 2(3) of that Act with the applicant higher education provider as a linked provider within the meaning of that Act, or

(c) made by the applicant higher education provider in accordance with the authority delegated to that provider by the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland under section 53 of the Act of 2012, shall, on the appointed day, become and be a programme of education and training provided by the technological university in respect of which the order under section 44F is made that leads to an award made by that technological university.

(3) A technological university in respect of which an order under section 44F is made may, with the approval of the Minister, determine in respect of programmes of education and training referred to in subsection (2) to which paragraph (b) of that subsection applies that the relevant designated awarding body concerned may continue, after the appointed day, to make awards in respect of those programmes to students who are enrolled in those programmes immediately before that day.”.”.