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Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(e) to preserve and support the independence of academic and research institutions;”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(e) support the development and maintenance of high standards of working conditions across the research sector in Ireland in cooperation with relevant bodies, including trade unions and other representative organisations;”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Report on employment status of key researchers 14. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas outlining the potential for recognition of employment status for postgraduate researchers and the implications the current...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The code of conduct for the recruitment of researchers, the Commission’s recommendations and the European Charter for Researchers state, for example, that “All researchers engaged in a research career should be recognised as professionals and be treated accordingly”. They are not.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, they are professionals. That is their point. Are they not professionals?

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I consider them to be professionals.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are working. Without our researchers, our third-level institutions would not be able to function. They are not being treated as professionals. The vast majority of them are living in poverty. They are not acknowledged for the contribution they make in terms of their employment status and rights. That is a fact and that is why they are campaigning. They are looking to be recognised...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It clearly demonstrates that we are performing very poorly compared to many, if not most, of our European counterparts when it comes to the treatment of our postgraduate researchers in terms of levels of income, employment security, career paths, opportunities, etc. We have a long way to go. It would be entirely reasonable therefore to hardwire that into a State body that is responsible for...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just to be clear, I am not saying they are uniform-----

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and, indeed, the Postgraduate Workers Organisation’s report shows that there are different models. I am quoting the recommendation that they should be treated as professionals, they should be seen as professionals and they should be treated accordingly. Currently, they rightly feel in many cases they are brutally underpaid, they are really struggling to sustain themselves in the...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will answer for me.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(b) to offer researchers sustainable career development systems at all career stages and to endeavour to ensure that researchers are treated as professionals and as an integral part of the institutions in which they work, in line with the objectives of the European Charter for Researchers and...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Research Council has it right and the Government has it wrong, to put it simply. In driving the sort of research agency we want, it should not be about technocrats, for want of a better word. I just do not think it should be. The technocrats should be subservient to the people who have experience, knowledge and are engaged in the research, in whatever field it may be, the...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First of all, in terms of not having a representative board, I would like to point out that the European Research Council has a different approach. Researchers and scientists from all disciplines are in the driving seat. The people whom the Minister described as having competency are told what to do by the researchers and scientists. That is the way it should be, in my opinion. I disagree...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that for the whole group?

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I am moving these series of amendments-----

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seven minutes to speak to all of those amendments.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “ “researchers’ representative group” means— (a) a trade union which is the holder of a negotiation licence under Part II of the Trade Union Act 1941, or (b) any independent and self-governing body, recognised by a higher education provider, research body or by the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all about commodifying intellectual property.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Union of Students in Ireland, USI, just held a briefing on the student accommodation crisis, with a particular emphasis on digs accommodation. I encourage the Government to read its survey. It pointed out that purpose-built student accommodation is needed, the Government has not delivered it in sufficient quantities, and many students are being forced into digs accommodation, which is...