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Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 22: In page 18, line 20, after “chairperson” to insert “and researchers’ representative groups”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 25: In page 21, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(v) researchers’ representative groups,”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 26: In page 22, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(f) specify the proposed allocation of total resources (both financial and persons) of the Agency between particular academic disciplines, fields of research or groupings thereof,". I will speak briefly to this. This is in the annual plan of the new research agency as well as the existing...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister said the requirement is that people will most likely have to have experience in research, but the diversity that is critical is not written into the legislation. It is noteworthy that the area the Minister specified was enterprise. Why, for example, would he not have specified arts? Enterprise is specified because what is considered to be important for the economy is...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 14: In page 15, line 20, to delete "Subject to subsection (3)" and substitute "Subject to subsections (3) and (4)".

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15: In page 15, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "(3) No fewer than six ordinary members of the Board shall have experience and expertise in carrying out research.".

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 15, to delete lines 25 to 27.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 17: In page 15, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: "(4) No fewer than three members of the Board shall be nominated for such appointment by researchers' representative groups.".

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 18: In page 15, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "(5) The Minister, when making appointments to the Board, shall have regard to the objective that expertise in the Board shall come from a wide variety of academic disciplines and fields of research.".

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a number of amendments in this grouping. Some of the discussion has been had. Amendment No. 15 proposes that "no fewer than six ordinary members of the Board shall have experience and expertise in carrying out research". We are seeking to specify that a majority of the board, as a minimum, would be people with expertise and experience in research. This is a reasonable demand. I...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3: In page 11, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(c) to ensure the provision of adequate funding for the development of high quality doctoral programmes, in line with the Salzburg Principles;”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4: In page 11, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(d) to promote the independence and flexibility of early-career researchers;”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, line 12, to delete “the Government, Ministers of the Government and”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(e) to preserve and support the independence of academic and research institutions;”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(e) support the development and maintenance of high standards of working conditions across the research sector in Ireland in cooperation with relevant bodies, including trade unions and other representative organisations;”.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Report on employment status of key researchers 14. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas outlining the potential for recognition of employment status for postgraduate researchers and the implications the current...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The code of conduct for the recruitment of researchers, the Commission’s recommendations and the European Charter for Researchers state, for example, that “All researchers engaged in a research career should be recognised as professionals and be treated accordingly”. They are not.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, they are professionals. That is their point. Are they not professionals?

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I consider them to be professionals.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are working. Without our researchers, our third-level institutions would not be able to function. They are not being treated as professionals. The vast majority of them are living in poverty. They are not acknowledged for the contribution they make in terms of their employment status and rights. That is a fact and that is why they are campaigning. They are looking to be recognised...