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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: Would it then be correct to say that when the new board is constituted one of the factors it can take into account is the low level of payment that many PhD researchers receive, and that this is something they could seek to rectify a remedy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: Can people in other jurisdictions apply to this new Irish statutory body for funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Dr. Lillis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all of the witnesses for coming before the committee. Am I correct in saying that Professor Kelly-Holmes is not concerned that this new statutory body will put the humanities and social sciences in a subordinate position to where they are at present? Would this be a fair assessment of what the professor is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. Professor Livesey was quite clear that he does not really see any concerns here. Would he be confident that a young researcher coming from a history discipline who wants to do a research into an unpopular or relatively ignored part of Irish history will be able to make an application for the funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. Professor Taylor mentioned governance in his opening statement. Obviously, this is hugely dependent upon the make-up of the board. We can design a perfect statute that sets out what the board will and will not do. However, we are enormously dependent upon the make-up of the board. I am not asking for individuals, but what should the mix be from his perspective? At present, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Taylor very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: Will people to apply for it? Sometimes, we find it very difficult to get people to apply for statutory boards. Does Professor Taylor think he will get people from the academic community to apply?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Paramilitary Groups (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: 499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to proscribe formally a group (detail supplied) as a terrorist organisation under the Offences Against the State Acts 1939-1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22837/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: 757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown by county of apprenticeships available, in tabular form. [23188/23]
- Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: I commend the Minister of State on bringing this complex and complicated legislation before the House. The Department also deserves to be commended. Sometimes the transposition of European law into Irish law can take very many years. In fact, I have seen legislation that has sought to transpose directives which were made some six or seven years previously. Obviously, with this legislation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank our guests for coming before the committee. It is 11 years since the Irish people voted in a referendum to sign up to the six-pack of reforms that were outlined in 2011. An issue of which we are not sufficiently aware is the extent to which other European countries are in compliance with those rules. I am conscious that the past three years have been exceptional. To what extent...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: The Commission proposal puts forward a four-year reference spending path, the purpose of which is to put the debt ratio on a downward path through the following ten years. In the case of Ireland, would that not happen anyway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: It will not have any consequential impact on Ireland because of the current trend in our debt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: What happens if there is a change of government in a member state and the new government decides it does not like the national fiscal trajectory for spending and wishes to change it? Could it do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)
Jim O'Callaghan: The destination has to be the same.