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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It clearly demonstrates that we are performing very poorly compared to many, if not most, of our European counterparts when it comes to the treatment of our postgraduate researchers in terms of levels of income, employment security, career paths, opportunities, etc. We have a long way to go. It would be entirely reasonable therefore to hardwire that into a State body that is responsible for...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just to be clear, I am not saying they are uniform-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and, indeed, the Postgraduate Workers Organisation’s report shows that there are different models. I am quoting the recommendation that they should be treated as professionals, they should be seen as professionals and they should be treated accordingly. Currently, they rightly feel in many cases they are brutally underpaid, they are really struggling to sustain themselves in the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will answer for me.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(b) to offer researchers sustainable career development systems at all career stages and to endeavour to ensure that researchers are treated as professionals and as an integral part of the institutions in which they work, in line with the objectives of the European Charter for Researchers and...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Research Council has it right and the Government has it wrong, to put it simply. In driving the sort of research agency we want, it should not be about technocrats, for want of a better word. I just do not think it should be. The technocrats should be subservient to the people who have experience, knowledge and are engaged in the research, in whatever field it may be, the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: First of all, in terms of not having a representative board, I would like to point out that the European Research Council has a different approach. Researchers and scientists from all disciplines are in the driving seat. The people whom the Minister described as having competency are told what to do by the researchers and scientists. That is the way it should be, in my opinion. I disagree...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that for the whole group?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I am moving these series of amendments-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seven minutes to speak to all of those amendments.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “ “researchers’ representative group” means— (a) a trade union which is the holder of a negotiation licence under Part II of the Trade Union Act 1941, or (b) any independent and self-governing body, recognised by a higher education provider, research body or by the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all about commodifying intellectual property.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Union of Students in Ireland, USI, just held a briefing on the student accommodation crisis, with a particular emphasis on digs accommodation. I encourage the Government to read its survey. It pointed out that purpose-built student accommodation is needed, the Government has not delivered it in sufficient quantities, and many students are being forced into digs accommodation, which is...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In order to solve the absolutely disastrous housing situation we are in and the human misery that is wrecking the lives of the 13,500 people who are homeless and the hundreds of thousands of young people and working people who are absolutely locked out of the possibility of ever owning their own home and who, increasingly, are leaving the country because of that or because they cannot even...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 2021, 102 people were drowned in this country, giving Ireland one of the highest rates of drowning in western Europe. It is almost double the rate in Denmark, it is double that of Germany, double that of Italy and double that of the Netherlands. It is significantly higher than Portugal and the UK and is double that of the North of Ireland. What will the Minister do to ensure we reduce...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid the Minister did not answer the question, which is about how we will deal with the situation that Ireland has a significantly worse rate of drownings than many of our western European counterparts including, significantly, a drowning rate that is double that of the North of Ireland, which is on this island. It is significantly higher than the UK. I will give the Minister a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say we had the worst in Europe, I said we have among the worst in western Europe. Countries that do have busier beaches have a much better record on drownings than we do. Italy is better than us. Portugal is better than us. The North, as I said, is better than us. The UK is better than us. Belgium is better than us, and significantly so. This is because their lifeguards have...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry.

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have seven minutes and he will have three minutes. I just got off the phone from a call with a friend of mine who is a wheelchair user and disability rights campaigner. I asked him what I should say in this debate. He asked me to express his absolute outrage at the way the Government has handled the referendum. At this point, he is going to vote no on the referendum on care. He...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The struggle for women's liberation and equality has made many advances, primarily as a result of the struggle of women themselves and social movements demanding equality and liberation. Despite the formal acknowledgment and recognition that oppression and all forms of gender-based discrimination women have suffered should end, they persist. That is why it is important to celebrate...