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

Simon Harris: Really?

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

Simon Harris: I will write to IFUT on the basis of Deputy Sherlock's intervention, particularly as this is an important matter and it deserves a response. IFUT deserves the rationale for this legislation and I am very happy to try to address the issues it has raised by way of, from my perspective, clarification. Precarious employment is an issue IFUT raises regularly and I note Deputy Farrell had a...

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

Simon Harris: Yes.

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

Simon Harris: I am happy to do so in advance of Report Stage.

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

Simon Harris: I am happy to write to both Deputies setting out the factual position in terms of the role that Research Ireland will or will not have, which might enable the Deputy to then decide what she wishes to do on Report Stage. As the Deputy will see in the Bill, Research Ireland will have a function to promote research careers at all levels. I think that is a good thing. It will obviously align...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 39: In page 32, line 16, after “of” where it secondly occurs, to insert “, or any other internal development or factor impacting on,” after "results of".

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 40: In page 34, line 13, after “section 42” to insert “as respects the 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. 41: In page 34, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(2) Where the Chief Executive Officer proposes to make a determination under any paragraph of subsection (1), he or she shall, by notice in writing to the recipient of funding concerned, inform that recipient of funding that he or she proposes to make the determination and shall state the...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 42: In page 34, line 41, after “made” to insert the following: “(which date shall not be a date earlier than the end of the prescribed period within which an appeal may be brought under subsection (8))”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 43: In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: "(8) Where a determination is made by the Chief Executive Officer under subsection (1) (d), the recipient of funding concerned may appeal against that determination within the prescribed period after the service of the notice on that recipient of funding under subsection (5). (9) The bringing...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, line 30, after "the" where it firstly occurs to insert "official".

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Farrell for the amendment. My instinct and desire was to accept it because we share the view. The point I referenced earlier and I am happy for us both to reflect on this and tease it through further on Report Stage is the unintended legal consequence the legal drafters expressed with regard to putting a new public good test, for want of a better phrase and that is my word...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 44: In page 35, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: "(9) In a case to which subsection (8) applies, the Chief Executive Officer shall inform An tÚdarás if the recipient of funding concerned appeals against the determination of the Chief Executive Officer under subsection (1)(d) and shall provide particulars of that appeal and its...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 45: In page 35, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “Appeals board 44. (1) The Minister shall, within 28 days or such other period as may be prescribed after the receipt of a notice of appeal under section 43(8), establish an appeals board (in this Act referred to as an “appeals board”) comprised of 3 members, one of whom...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 46: In page 35, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “Determination of appeal by appeals board 45. (1) An appeal— (a) shall be lodged with the Minister within the time, and in accordance with the procedures, prescribed under section 46, and (b) shall state the grounds for the appeal. (2) Subject to this Act and any...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 47: In page 35, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “Appeal procedures 46. (1) As soon as practicable after the establishment day and following consultation with Taighde Éireann, the Minister shall prescribe procedures for the conduct and determination of appeals under section 43(8). (2) Without prejudice to the generality...

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

Simon Harris: It is anticipated that the proposed change could be unnecessarily limiting. The agency may wish to co-operate with another body on outreach work or community engagement, which is enabled under the current provision in the Bill but which is not covered by the text of the proposed amendment. The provision is already limited to the proper performance of the objects and functions of the agency....

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 49: In page 39, line 35, to delete “shared” and substitute “furnished”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 50: In page 41, line 1, to delete “Maternity Protection Acts 1994 and 2004” and substitute “Maternity Protection Acts 1994 to 2022”. Members will be relieved to hear that these amendments are all correcting Acts of citation. So the amendments relate to the list of Acts cited at sections 52 and 61 that need to be updated in terms of the years...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 51: In page 41, line 5, to delete “Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019” and substitute “Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2023”.