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Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 8, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(4) The majority-shareholding Minister shall, prior to issuing a shareholder letter of expectation to Gas Networks Ireland, lay such a letter before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach and the Committee of Public Accounts.”.

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: These amendments are not outside the scope of the Bill as they are all in order. These are attempts to offer assistance in terms of progressing this and taking action. Rather than looking for reasons these amendments might be dismissed, what we should be hearing from the Minister of State is what urgent actions are being taken. The CRU did a review four years ago. I know this because I...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1: In page 8, line 24, to delete “where they have not been used previously”. I congratulate the Minister on his new role. I look forward to engaging with him on this and other legislation. This group of amendments aims to address some of the questions around the definitions in the Bill. By strengthening and widening the definitions, we will be able...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would like him to come back on a few points because it would be very useful to me in terms of whether I have to table any amendments on Report Stage. Some of what he said is quite positive but perhaps he could just clarify some points again. Am I right that in the phrase "use" that is currently in the Bill, the understanding of "use" does encompass...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will not press some of these issues, but I think it would be okay for us to look to the HEA Act because that Act was rushed through this House at breakneck speed and-----

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know. I am flagging that there will be a number of amendments that address some of these questions. Yes, after a period of time that was brought forward, but the initial part of it moved through very fast, and Senators were put under extreme pressure for simply proposing amendments and asking for debate on matters of definition. I want to be clear that I think that some mistakes were...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Before that, if I may, I will say that in the end, there was engagement and it made the legislation a lot better and the Minister was much happier. There was, however, an attempt at a certain point where things were going to be moving fast. Regarding amendments I am proposing here again, I was told we do not have time and that we should not have to look at these matters; matters that are...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, line 24, to delete "where they have not been used previously" and substitute the following: "or the application of ideas, methods, products, processes, policies and services in new ways or for new purposes". I propose to withdraw this as the Minister has made a valid point.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, lines 5 to 7, to delete all words from and including "in" where it secondly occurs in line 5 down to and including "knowledge" in line 7 and substitute the following: "in order to increase or deepen knowledge and understanding, including knowledge and understanding of humankind, culture and society, and to devise new or improved applications of...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, line 6, after "increase", to insert "or deepen". I reserve the right to return to this on Report Stage.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I suggest that amendment No. 69 be included in the grouping because it is consequential to amendment No. 68. They comprise a set.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is why I suggest that it be in the grouping we are to discuss. Amendments Nos. 68 and 69 are related. What I propose would make the proceedings quicker and save us from making the same points-----

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Perfect. It will make it quicker for everyone.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I understand. It will save us from making all the same points again.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 6: 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 Minister, that is established...