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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 17: In page 17, line 6, after “1997” to insert “as”.

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

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for the amendments. This is Committee Stage and I will reflect on these amendments and no doubt we will have an opportunity on Report Stage as well to tease them through further. However, I will outline my initial response. Regarding amendment No. 18, the provision we have put into this Bill is based in very similar provisions in comparable legislation. In fact, it is...

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

Simon Harris: I apologise for coming back in again but just for clarity, because I should have said it for the record of the committee, the reason some bodies are specified currently in the Bill and others are not, is that those that are specified are funding bodies. We have kept the specified list to the funding bodies.

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

Simon Harris: Our understanding is that it will remain under the aegis of the HEA.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 19: In page 19, line 2, after “plan,” to insert “and”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 21: In page 26, to delete lines 34 to 36 and substitute the following: “(a) immediately before the establishment day, is a member of the staff of the dissolved body and, on that day, becomes a member of the staff of the Agency, or (b) immediately before the effective date, is a member of the staff of An tÚdarás who is transferring to the Agency...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 22: In page 27, lines 3 and 4, to delete “(within the meaning of section 61)”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 23: In page 27, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following: “(12) In this section— “effective date” has the meaning it has in section 61; “superannuation benefit” means a pension, gratuity or other allowance payable on retirement, resignation or death.”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 24: In page 28, line 14, after “Agency” to insert “specified”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No.25: In page 28, line 15, after “Agency” to insert “specified”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No.26: In page 28, line 22, to delete “either”

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 27: In page 28, line 25, after “subsection (1)” to insert “that is approved by the Board”

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 29: In page 28, lines 35 and 36, to delete “person to whom, or a body to which, funding is awarded” and substitute “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. 30: In page 29, line 26, to delete “organisation or body” and substitute “organisation, body or company”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 31: In page 29, line 28, to delete “organisations and bodies” and substitute “organisations, bodies and companies”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 32: In page 29, line 30, to delete “organisation or body” and substitute “organisation, body or company”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 34: In page 29, to delete lines 34 to 36 and substitute the following: “(3) An application may be submitted to the Agency on behalf of an applicant by an employee of the applicant or, as may be appropriate, a person who is a registered student (or who intends to register as a student) of the applicant.”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 35: In page 30, line 34, to delete “section 36(4)” and substitute “section 36(5)”.

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 36: In page 30, to delete lines 35 to 38 and substitute the following: “(c) having regard to— (i) the objects and functions of the Agency specified in sections 8 and 9 respectively, (ii) the objectives, outputs and related strategies in the corporate plan of the Agency under section 23, and (iii) the proposed activities and performance targets...

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

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 37: In page 31, line 4, after “subsection (5)” to insert the following: “, together with the matters referred to in subsection (4) to be considered by the Chief Executive Officer in making those recommendations,”.