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Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I will address the funding partnerships briefly. There are some excellent partnerships in place already. For example, I mentioned previously the US-Ireland partnership. These are international level partnerships across the world. This one I am referencing is with the United States. It links with the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation as well as universities in...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I wish to apologise as Senator Higgins is correct-----

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I thought amendment No. 93 was in question.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: As the Minister of State said, it is great to see that this new agency will open the possibility of engaging in more partnerships and funding with a number of different groups. I highlight that section 51(7)(b) provides: a reference to a body to which this section applies means [and it proceeds to list a number of bodies] or (xi) a body established by or under an enactment in which...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: This legislation is welcome. In Taighde Éireann, we are going to have a brand new agency for all research disciplines and for innovation. We have spent time debating the Bill, its strengths and the opportunities it is going to give to everyone working within the third level sector and in the area of research, including research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students....

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: Tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: If I might, I will join with my colleague in offering condolences to the Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, on his loss. It is always a very tragic time when it comes to family. There are a couple of issues I wish to raise. Ballygar, in County Galway, is running an event focusing on well-being and mental health. The event will feature Professor Brian Hughes, a psychologist from the University...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Transport (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: With the withdrawal of Aircoach from 8 April 2024, and the X20 service in 2021, on the Dublin to Galway route, those services have been stopped. We currently only have Citylink, which goes every two hours between Dublin and Galway and services the towns between those two cities. This Commencement matter was intended for the Minister for Transport. I am frustrated. I raised this in 2021...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Transport (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: The Minister of State knows very well that he is standing in for the Minister, Deputy Ryan. Any Minister who comes in here to reply to any Commencement matter is speaking on behalf of the Minister that they represent. It is unfortunate and I would like the clock to be reset, please. What the Minister of State has provided me with here from the NTA is supposed to be the rural Ireland...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I acknowledge the importance of accessibility and of this Bill. Senator Clonan is raising a lot of things we in government are reviewing and looking at as well. I wanted to highlight the work at regional level that we see across the likes of Roscommon and Galway. I ask the Minister of State to address this in her response but I wish to highlight the just transition programme currently...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: The Minister of State and the Senator have acknowledged the importance of governance. Governance is crucial. I hope we will see an increase in the Exchequer funding that goes to the agency but governance is of the utmost importance. The Minister, Department and chair of Tailte Éireann will need to be able to speak to this. It is important that the relevant Minister be the Minister...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: We have spoken previously on this as well with Senator Higgins. This agency is for research and innovation. Innovation is about bringing the fruits of research out into our communities and out into society to ensure that it has an impact and that it does not sit on a dusty shelf somewhere. That is what is really crucial about this. Much of this knowledge transfer and technology transfer...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I welcome Professor Carey. We should have this debate as Gaeilge as well. I worked specifically on promoting funding programmes within SFI so I know a lot about the accessibility of some of these programmes, how we promote them, how we engaged researchers from a broad background and how we were one of the first agencies many years ago to do online Teams-type events and activities to ensure...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: The Minister of State might speak to this point a little. The corporate plan, from my understanding of it, is an organisational structure, so the structure of Taighde Éireann is about how it will operate. That is what the corporate plan, to my understanding, is about. It is more the organisational structure because it will be an agency bringing together two entities. What is spoken...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I welcome our new Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, in his new role with responsibility for public health in the Department of Health. As colleagues have mentioned, for many years he has advocated on health issues and fought for many people in the health area. There has been an increase in loneliness. Earlier I was looking at an article in The Irish Times - my computer has just gone...

Seanad: Flooding on Lough Funshinagh: Statements (30 Apr 2024)

Aisling Dolan: As the Minister of State has said, the Lough Funshinagh region in south Roscommon is an absolutely stunning limestone landscape of rolling hills. It contains the islands of Inchnamona and Inchmore. Lough Funshinagh is a turlough, which means it is a disappearing lake. However we know, fully, that it has not disappeared. In fact there has been nothing since 2016 only an increase, year...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Aisling Dolan: It has been noted by the Minister of State that this is very clearly outlined in the Universities Act 1997 and, of course, with all universities that is a key tenet. Regarding funding that is coming under this agency, it will fund across all disciplines and will be based on excellence. The very first line talks about the maintenance of excellence in the standard and quality of research and...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Aisling Dolan: It is important that we have attractive terms and conditions for researchers in our universities. This is clear. He is now our Taoiseach, but when Deputy Harris was the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, he and the Minister of State examined the issue of stipends for people doing PhDs and so on to make it more accessible for people to do PhDs and...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I want to highlight the excellence we see across partnerships that are already happening with our universities and colleges. Just recently, we saw €7 million come into the US-Ireland programme. This is a phenomenal programme that is bringing in researchers. That €7 million will fund ten research positions in colleges in Ireland, another ten or 11 in Northern Ireland and the...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Aisling Dolan: I second the motion.