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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: A lot more to do. Where did we hear that before?

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

Seán Sherlock: I am happy to withdraw the Labour amendment on the basis of what the Minister has said but seek further clarification on the relationship that will exist between the research council and the board proper. The Minister will have addressed this, possibly on Second Stage and on prelegislative scrutiny stage, and he will forgive me if he is going over old ground on this one. In responding, I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (28 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of incidents recorded by all agencies at certain intersections (details supplied) by type of incident, time of day and month, in tabular form, for the years 2019,2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date. [9645/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Properties (29 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 23 January 2024, if he can comment on the particulars of the event requested (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9787/24]

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I want to address three issues in the time afforded to me. First is the inspections regime of local authorities for private rented accommodation. I recently tabled a parliamentary question in which I asked how many inspections were carried out across all of the local authorities. The latest figures from Cork County Council, for example, show that from quarter 1 to quarter 3 of 2023, there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Why are the cancellations happening? Something is going wrong in the system.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Tell that to the people of Limerick whose procedures have been cancelled.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Why are they being cancelled?

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)

Seán Sherlock: I share some of Deputy Naughten's concerns. The issue of a unified patent court has been sloshing around in the Minister's Department since I was a Minister of State, which is now several years ago. In my humble opinion, the proposed wording is very vague. We are in the business of politics and it is the responsibility of the political system to tease out the wording further. Why would...

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

Seán Sherlock: The Minister has spoken about the composition of the board and that is what the amendment is about here. We had some deliberations about the rights of researchers. I was satisfied on Committee Stage with the Minister's response on that point. I would have liked it to have been a bit stronger, if I may, but we had amendments to that effect. However, there was always a long-standing...

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

Seán Sherlock: I just want to confirm that we are speaking on amendments Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive.

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

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. On amendment No. 6, I have listened carefully to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I am about to do an unusual thing and ask the proposer of the amendment if he is suggesting that preserving and supporting the independence of academic and research institutions is now to be a matter for Taighde Éireann? In law, will that be its remit? If that is the case, what is...

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

Seán Sherlock: I will speak to that later. That is the question I have.

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

Seán Sherlock: I accept the Minister's answer on this. I am just concerned that we do not create a situation where a research funding body is given a remit that supersedes long-established practice. I daresay most of us have benefited from the practice or have experience of interfacing with institutions like HEIs and we recognise that academic independence. I just do not want to see anything in law that...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(e) promote research and innovation which supports economic, social, cultural and environmental development and sustainability and human wellbeing, and to so do in co-operation and collaboration with the bodies to which section 51 applies and such other persons and bodies in the higher...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(2) In the performance of its functions the Agency shall— (a) accord due recognition and equal respect to research and innovation in all fields of activity and disciplines in the higher education and research system and the research and innovation system, and (b) ensure that,...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 13: In page 15, to delete lines 20 to 24 and substitute the following: “(2) Subject to subsection (3)— (a) the chairperson and ordinary members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister from among persons who, in the opinion of the Minister, have sufficient experience and expertise relating to matters connected with the functions of the...

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

Seán Sherlock: I agree with the spirit of what Deputy Boyd Barrett is suggesting by way of his amendment. He raised the point about increased militarisation that funding at a European Commission level could start to tilt towards funding for militarisation. I was glad that earlier the Deputy gave recognition to the Commission. He quoted from a Commission document. With tongue in cheek do I take it that...

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

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister and his officials. It is a comprehensive piece of legislation. If it is an opportune moment to do so, I want to ask the Minister of State about the status of the chief scientific adviser and when he envisages that role will be appointed.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 375. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures initiated and actioned for the night time economy by officers appointed in each city where a night time economy officer has been appointed, in tabular form. [10766/24]