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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 13: In page 15, to delete lines 20 to 24 and substitute the following: “(2) Subject to subsection (3)— (a) the chairperson and ordinary members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister from among persons who, in the opinion of the Minister, have sufficient experience and expertise relating to matters connected with the functions of the...

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

Seán Sherlock: I accept the Minister's answer on this. I am just concerned that we do not create a situation where a research funding body is given a remit that supersedes long-established practice. I daresay most of us have benefited from the practice or have experience of interfacing with institutions like HEIs and we recognise that academic independence. I just do not want to see anything in law that...

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

Seán Sherlock: I just want to confirm that we are speaking on amendments Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive.

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

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. On amendment No. 6, I have listened carefully to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I am about to do an unusual thing and ask the proposer of the amendment if he is suggesting that preserving and supporting the independence of academic and research institutions is now to be a matter for Taighde Éireann? In law, will that be its remit? If that is the case, what is...

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

Seán Sherlock: I will speak to that later. That is the question I have.

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

Seán Sherlock: The Minister has spoken about the composition of the board and that is what the amendment is about here. We had some deliberations about the rights of researchers. I was satisfied on Committee Stage with the Minister's response on that point. I would have liked it to have been a bit stronger, if I may, but we had amendments to that effect. However, there was always a long-standing...

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)

Seán Sherlock: I share some of Deputy Naughten's concerns. The issue of a unified patent court has been sloshing around in the Minister's Department since I was a Minister of State, which is now several years ago. In my humble opinion, the proposed wording is very vague. We are in the business of politics and it is the responsibility of the political system to tease out the wording further. Why would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Why are the cancellations happening? Something is going wrong in the system.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Tell that to the people of Limerick whose procedures have been cancelled.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Why are they being cancelled?

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

Seán Sherlock: I want to address three issues in the time afforded to me. First is the inspections regime of local authorities for private rented accommodation. I recently tabled a parliamentary question in which I asked how many inspections were carried out across all of the local authorities. The latest figures from Cork County Council, for example, show that from quarter 1 to quarter 3 of 2023, there...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties that remain vacant following the closure of bank branches in all the banks that the State has shares in, in each county and area, in tabular form; and the average worth each property. [11031/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the services being provided from a centre (details supplied). [11030/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 375. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures initiated and actioned for the night time economy by officers appointed in each city where a night time economy officer has been appointed, in tabular form. [10766/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a rent supplement claim in respect of a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if any documentation is outstanding which may be pertinent to the application in advance of a decision being made. [9968/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Accidents (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 28 February 2024, the number of incidents recorded by all agencies at certain intersections (details supplied) by type of incident, time of day and month, for the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [10762/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Una voce.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Briseann an dúchas.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: A lot more to do. Where did we hear that before?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Properties (29 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 23 January 2024, if he can comment on the particulars of the event requested (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9787/24]