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- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: The original amendment referred to "functions promoting an ethos that supports entrepreneurship, creativity, autonomy, innovation and engages citizenship". The new amendment includes all of the elements, including those towards which the Minister pointed us. Amendment No. 6a reads:In addition to the entrepreneurial elements as well as education and research a technological university shall...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: I greatly welcome the inadequacy of the Minister of State's response. I found it immensely flattering that she referred to me as the Minister. If I were, the amendment would be instantly accepted. I will not delay the House on this matter, although I will call a vote on the amendment. A number of matters arise. The Minister of State said the Bill did not purport to establish the ethos of...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: Is that the end of the discussion on the amendment?
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: That is fine.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: No. Is what agreed to?
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: I was trying to read through the documents to see if the Minister of State was accurate in saying-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: I wish to make a very serious point of order. We had a very useful debate in the House on Committee Stage and the requirements that the Minister suggested at that time were incorporated in the amendment, so it is rather astonishing that her Fine Gael colleagues voted against it. However, the real point I wish to make is that many of my colleagues on the Fianna Fáil benches quietly...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: It is a point of order.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: It is entirely a point of order. I am sorry, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, but they did not vote as they wished.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: They voted as they were told to by a person who is not a Member of this House.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: It is an outrage against democracy that a debate in this House should be dominated and Members should be told what to do by people who are not Members of this House.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: I cannot see the Chair and maybe,------
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: ------on a point of order, the Leas-Chathaoirleach should-------
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: -----be defending this House.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: I cannot hear the Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: Am I what?
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: Yes, absolutely.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: Without reopening the previous debate, I just wish to say that I will be writing to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges on the subject of Seanad independence because those in Fianna Fáil apparently did not know what their party's policy was, agreed with us and then telephoned a Member of the other House to be given instructions. That interrupts the autonomy of Seanad Éireann...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: I beg your pardon. I am not allowing the Leas-Cathaoirleach's statement to remain on the record of the House without correction. Members on the other side did not vote as they saw fit. They voted as they were told by a Member of the other House.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
David Norris: That is a completely different thing.