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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for the amendment. The Civil Service Renewal 2030 strategy does outline the policy intention of creating that culture of innovation within the public service. The planning, implementation and funding of these programmes is a matter in the first instance for the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. Section 47 of the Bill does give the new agency...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 14: In page 11, line 25, to delete “time” and substitute “period”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputies Farrell and Sherlock. I might start with Deputy Sherlock's point. It is captured in a later amendment, amendment No. 38, from Deputy Farrell. Briefly, on that broader point, because Deputy Sherlock brought it up, there are two points I would make. First, from a legal point of view, as the Deputy will be aware, the board and the agency are unlikely to be the employer of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: It is a valid point and will set it out in writing for the Deputy. For the benefit of the meeting, the research council is a sub-committee of the board from a legal point of view. It is seen as a group that will consist entirely of top-class researchers and will be able to feed into the board but also put forward proposals such as around the design of programmes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I do not have much to add other than to say it would be a significant break with tradition in terms of a competency-based board. As I said, we do not state in the HSE legislation a majority of members of the HSE board should be healthcare professionals. We certainly do not say, in relation to RTÉ, a majority of members of the board should be working in television or radio. It would be...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 17: In page 17, line 6, after “1997” to insert “as”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for the amendments. This is Committee Stage and I will reflect on these amendments and no doubt we will have an opportunity on Report Stage as well to tease them through further. However, I will outline my initial response. Regarding amendment No. 18, the provision we have put into this Bill is based in very similar provisions in comparable legislation. In fact, it is...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I apologise for coming back in again but just for clarity, because I should have said it for the record of the committee, the reason some bodies are specified currently in the Bill and others are not, is that those that are specified are funding bodies. We have kept the specified list to the funding bodies.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: Our understanding is that it will remain under the aegis of the HEA.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 19: In page 19, line 2, after “plan,” to insert “and”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 21: In page 26, to delete lines 34 to 36 and substitute the following: “(a) immediately before the establishment day, is a member of the staff of the dissolved body and, on that day, becomes a member of the staff of the Agency, or (b) immediately before the effective date, is a member of the staff of An tÚdarás who is transferring to the Agency...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 22: In page 27, lines 3 and 4, to delete “(within the meaning of section 61)”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 23: In page 27, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following: “(12) In this section— “effective date” has the meaning it has in section 61; “superannuation benefit” means a pension, gratuity or other allowance payable on retirement, resignation or death.”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 24: In page 28, line 14, after “Agency” to insert “specified”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No.25: In page 28, line 15, after “Agency” to insert “specified”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No.26: In page 28, line 22, to delete “either”

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 27: In page 28, line 25, after “subsection (1)” to insert “that is approved by the Board”

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 29: In page 28, lines 35 and 36, to delete “person to whom, or a body to which, funding is awarded” and substitute “recipient of funding”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 30: In page 29, line 26, to delete “organisation or body” and substitute “organisation, body or company”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 31: In page 29, line 28, to delete “organisations and bodies” and substitute “organisations, bodies and companies”.