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

The Bill states: "Every person who, immediately before the designated day (a) was a member of the staff of the dissolved body shall, on the designated day, become and be a member of the staff of the merged institute and (b) was a fixed-term employee of the dissolved body shall, on the designated day, become and be a fixed-term employee of the merged institute for the duration of his or her contract of employment."

That is written in the Bill. What I was alluding to was that sometimes, courses change. That has happened in the past. This provision guarantees those jobs which will move from the institutes of technology to the technological universities. If a course becomes defunct, there can be an issue. That is what I am talking about.

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