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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree with the amendment in principle. I just seek clarification on whether the HEA will have a function in providing special emphasis and efforts in terms of boosting cross-Border collaboration and co-operation on the island, above and beyond the importance of the broader international outreach and collaboration. I welcome that the North is still given a separate paragraph. I would hope...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 38: In page 17, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(p) promote increased levels of north south cross border student enrolment in higher education,”. We just need a very clear role for the HEA in promoting cross-Border enrolment. Cross-Border student enrolment is broadly seen as mutually beneficial in economic, social and cultural terms....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that, and thank the Minister. I have done months of consultations as well as being rapporteur for the education committee on all-island enrolment. Very interesting issues have arisen there in terms of the barriers that exist. I believe that we can deal with many of them together and I would rather deal with the Minister in a collaborative way to increase the education...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 39: In page 17, line 15, after “information” to insert the following: “, including specific information on the funding for, and numbers engaged in, study and research through the medium of Irish,”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 47: In page 20, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(c) Not less than one of the persons appointed under paragraph (a)shall be a trade union representative of academic staff in the sector, nominated by the relevant trade union(s).”

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 48: In page 20, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(c) Not less than one of the persons appointed under paragraph (a) shall be a trade union representative of non-academic staff in the sector, nominated by the relevant trade union(s).”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Amendment No. 49 not moved.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 51: In page 22, line 8, to delete "National Apprenticeship Office" and substitute "Oifig na bPrintíseachtaí".

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I cannot agree with this proposal. I hear what the Minister is saying but I do not see any reason or justification for taking out the requirement for the approval of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. It is an additional safeguard. It is all right to remove that safeguard while the current Minister, Deputy Harris, is in office, but there might be other Ministers after him.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I never really said that. It was not explicit. I said he might not be Minister forever.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 56: In page 27, to delete lines 18 to 21. This is where the HEA's CEO is specifically prohibited from commenting on policy, in that he or she shall not question or express an opinion on the merits of any policy of the Government or Minister of the Government or the merits of the objectives of such a policy. This phrase relates specifically to the Committee of Public...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know it is. It is also there with regard to the HSE. The purpose and justification for having a higher education authority is that it is a strong authority capable of providing oversight of the sector and acting as an advocate on the sector's behalf. Including this limitation on the CEO means he or she has less flexibility to act as a voice for the sector before this and other committees...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am still concerned that it is in the Bill. The Minister spoke about taking the wording in isolation but it explicitly states the CEO shall not question or express an opinion on the merits of any new policy of Government or Minister of the Government on the merits of the objectives of the policy. It seems very restrictive and almost dictatorial in that sense.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will withdraw the amendment but I reserve the right to present it again. I hear what the Minister is saying but it does not sit well with me.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 57: In page 28, to delete lines 18 to 21.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We tabled amendment No. 61 to ensure that if the funding status of an institute of higher education is to be taken into account, that this is only done along the lines of whether it is a public institution.