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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I suppose the view of the FSPO officials is that part of the reason for the efficiency of the FSPO is the fact that these investigations can be conducted in private. Does that make the FSPO more efficient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: The FSPO publishes its decisions but it anonymises them. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay, so the public can see them. Does the FSPO permit any media coverages? Does it permit reporters to come in? Would that be something it would give consideration to, if the reporters anonymised the parties before the FSPO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, if there was an oral hearing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: If it was in public, would the individuals be identified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Has the FSPO had any public hearings to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: That is why this legislation is coming forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman. I welcome all the guests before the committee and thank them for their opening statements. If I could start with Dr. Keating, we all recognise that academic research cannot take place without funding. At present, arts and humanities are funded by the research council and science is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Is there legitimacy to the concern that by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Presumably, this will be very dependent on the membership of the board. Everyone will come with their own preferences, prejudices and biases. That is natural. Are there concerns that somebody who comes forward with a proposal to do research into a history or creative arts project will not be able to compete with somebody who comes forward with a very economically beneficial proposal in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Professor Hegarty wish to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: That might be a solution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is not really a final question. Under heads 11 and 29, the Minister has a role in giving direction to the new statutory body. Do the witnesses have any concerns that a politician or Minister could come under public pressure to disown some form of research because the individual at the centre who is being researched may be unpopular? There could be a campaign against him or her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I have gone over my five minutes. I am sorry I have had such a limited time, but they are the rules.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all the guests for coming before the committee. I will start by asking Mr. Jones a question. The heads of Bill say the objective is to promote research across all disciplines. Mr. Jones has identified in his opening statement that one of his concerns is that there has to be a need for parity of esteem between disciplines. Does he have a concern that certain disciplines such as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: What is the best way to address it in the legislation? Is it by having a representative board across disciplines or is it by trying to be very structured by putting requirements into the legislation as to how disciplines should be treated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is hard to categorise it but Mr. Jones thinks a representative board is the best way to go about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the proposed change to head 8 - objects, which I will not read out, the purpose behind it is that Mr. Jones thinks it will assist researchers in getting better terms and conditions because it will be a condition of funding by the new statutory body that the third-level institution will have to comply with certain minimum standards of employment. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I wish to ask Dr. Walsh about that point. He mentioned in his opening statement that early career researchers, particularly those in precarious contracts, are particularly vulnerable to any change in research funding priorities. What does he think of congress’s proposal? Would it be helpful to researchers at an early stage of their career?