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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I am looking forward to seeing the record of this and reading this later.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: It is blockchain awareness week.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I move amendment No. 191: In page 87, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “139QA.(1) Where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions has been committed by an undertaking and the doing of the acts that constituted the offence has been authorised, or consented to by, or is attributable to connivance or neglect on the part of, a person, being a director,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I entirely understand there are legal difficulties and accept that the level of proof required in a criminal case to prove something beyond reasonable doubt is always going to be the case with regard to any criminal charge. I am afraid I have to respectfully dispute the Minister's assertion that this would be a matter of choice. There is not a barrier, as I read the legislation, that would...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: The Minister and her officials have engaged on all the other areas. It would be useful if some of the advice could be made available to us. I do not know what is possible. It would be good to discuss that advice with officials and see if there is a way around this. From some of the discussions we have had, amendments along these lines will be possible. Rather than getting into legal...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: On the basis of the very positive engagement we have had with the Minister and her officials, I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank our witnesses. I congratulate them on their relatively new appointments. It is appropriate, given these are three relatively new institutions, to acknowledge the work of their new presidents, in addition to the management, governing bodies and everyone who has got the institutions to where they are today. Deputy Conway-Walsh touched on many of the issues around the discrepancies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I will put the same question to Dr. Prendergast. I know he will say the top priority, and the Chair will agree with me, has to be the construction of the new Wexford campus. Apart from the funding investment required there, I ask him to look at the broader question of the system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: Dr. Prendergast will be aware a decision will be made around core funding, SUSI grants and so on. Has he a view on that issue? I will ask Ms Feehily the same question in a moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I will focus on the talk about cutting student fees. My view on this is known. If we are to increase access, we are far better investing in the SUSI grant scheme, widening access to grants and increasing the amounts available. The old institutes of technology, the TUs, have been particularly strong on the access agenda. I am conscious, in looking at the most recent data for the former...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: With the Chair's indulgence, I ask the other witnesses to respond to that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I have put Mr. Deenihan on the spot. It is more difficult for Ms Feehily.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: In the next couple of days, well over 1,000 politicians and political delegates will arrive in Dublin for the congress of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe, the political family to which my party, Fianna Fáil, belongs. I am sure the Acting Leader will join me in welcoming the delegates and I am sure they will have a good time and a very productive congress in Dublin. Our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I also say well done to Mr. English and Mr. Hourihan on all of their work and the very best of luck with the championships which are coming up. I thank and congratulate all of our witnesses on what they have achieved. I will put this question to our four guests. We will have the Minister, Deputy Harris, coming before the committee later on today. What would be the one message they would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: Very good. Turning to Ms Leanne and Ms Yeates, on the issue, in particular, of attracting young women into apprenticeships, what would they suggest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: How would Mr. McSherry encourage such a change in that mindset?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: We do here, too.