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- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome to the House, for the first time in his new role, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Patrick O’Donovan. He is very welcome back to the Seanad. I wish him well in his new role, as I am sure we all do.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Amendment No. 2 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 1 and amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 3. Amendments Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We are not dealing with that today.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We did point that out already but there is no harm in pointing it out twice.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Not that he was ever like that in the past.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: That is a matter for the Members, and the Chair will do his best. A number of us had connections with the HEA in previous lives. I now intend to put the question on amendment No. 1.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 6 and 61 to 68, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed?
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is in a different grouping.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is up to the House to agree to it.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed. The grouping has been changed by the agreement of the House, meaning that amendments Nos. 6, 61 to 69, inclusive, are being taken together. We are discussing amendment No. 69 now, not later.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I ask the Senator to move amendment No. 6.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Higgins. Senator Malcolm Byrne will be followed by Senator Dolan.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I can bring the Senator back in later.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Senator Byrne has the floor.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I have still not brought in the Minister.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is to be hoped he will resolve a lot of the Senator's questions.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: No problem, I thank the Minister. I welcome the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator can use that as a precedent the next time. I call Senator Higgins.
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I do note it insofar as I can.
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: For the information of members, please note that the House by agreeing to the motion to recommit allows a Committee Stage-style discussion on amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, 8, 15 and 20 to 37, inclusive, only. Members may speak more than once on each of those amendments. In respect of the other amendments, I remind Members that a Member may speak only once on Report Stage except for the...