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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: "You will, you will, you will, you will".

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: No, I am happy to proceed.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 151: "In page 66, line 23, to delete “two” and substitute “three”."

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 158: In page 69, line 22, to delete “enable” and substitute “report upon”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 159: In page 69, line 26, after “university” to insert the following: “or in order to enable the provision of an adequate explanation for any non-compliance in accordance with section 126(7)* of the Higher Education Authority Act 2022,”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 161: In page 72, line 15, to delete “governing authority” and substitute “chief officer". I will listen to the Minister's explanation.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I may need more convincing in respect of why approval of the board is required in section 64 but not in section 65. However, similar to Deputy Conway-Walsh, I will withdraw my amendment and consider what the Minister does on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will speak to it now. I presume that the Minister would agree with me that the student voice is often relegated. It happens right throughout education. Most of the discussions that take place are about learning, and about those who may learn, without those people having input at the top table. Within all of that, I have to congratulate the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, today...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 175: In page 78, line 6, to delete “2” and substitute “3”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 184: In page 83, line 27, to delete “2” and substitute “3”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 203: In page 108, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), An tÚdarás shall prepare or adopt and issue to designated institutions of higher education a policy concerning the sustainable investment of the funds of those institutions, including a prohibition on investing those funds,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 204: In page 108, to delete lines 29 and 30.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 206: In page 108, line 33, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 208: In page 109, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Ministerial directions 127. (1) Subject to the requirements of this section, the Minister may give a direction in writing to An tÚdarás to prepare guidelines, codes or policies under section 126(1). (2) The Minister shall, in the interests of procedural fairness, give a notice in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for Irish language exemptions for Ukrainian students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that section 2.4 of circulars 52 and 53 of 2019 refers to an appeal of an Irish exemption refusal when it is only a review of the procedure followed by the school and not a review of the substance of the appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the law, Act or any other constitutional document under which the teaching of Irish in schools is made mandatory; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a document that is available on her Departmental website, Rules for National Schools, states that subjects of laundry, needlework and domestic economy are for girls; her views on whether this is demeaning and undermines the role of female students in society; her further views on whether such a...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: "Ah go on."

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party Private Members' Bill provided for ten days' sick leave, and rising to 30. I suppose my party's concern with the Bill is that it is not robust enough and that aspirations, as has been suggested, from the Minister of State, Deputy English, and from the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Varadkar, are not hard wired into the Bill. We want...