Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

5:30 pm

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent)
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This is an academic freedom issue. Undoubtedly, the gender-critical debate, if you like, illustrates the problem. What we see here, as we have seen in the Government's controversial legislation around hate speech, contains definitions that are, at best, politically contested and, at worst, scientifically illiterate. This is an example.