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- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: Who guillotined it then?
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: That is not how they see it.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “ “academic member” means a member of An tÚdarás who, at the time of his appointment as such member, held an academic post; “academic post” means a post in an institution of higher education (other than a post as chief officer) all or part of the duties of the...
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: This is just a tangential and light-hearted comment. Where I come from, the word "academic" is often used to indicate that something is completely irrelevant and has no practical function.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: And the Minister may have no experience whatever of higher education.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: Well, we have had several doctors in Health.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: The institutions are already financially accountable to the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: I thought they were coupled.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: I apologise to the House. I thought we had been discussing amendment No. 317 when I heard an extensive discussion going on behind me. However, it has been ruled out of order and I accept that.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: He was a very distinguished senior counsel, so he knew the law from the other side.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: It is a very salient point.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: He invited it.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: We are all citizens.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: Some are more than not.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: You cannot.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: I will refer to a small grammatical point in amendment No 3, which states, "after “disadvantaged,” to insert “persons to whom the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2018 apply to,"." The second "to" is inelegant. One should not end with a preposition anyway.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: It is "to" much for a white lady like me.
- Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)
David Norris: It is fine to have one. Archbishop Tutu.