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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will request that the national judging of the Tidy Towns competition take place after the local elections in order to allow for any posters erected for the elections to be taken down in a timely manner. [20953/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: If it is within her gift, I ask the Minister to request that the national judging committee of the Tidy Towns competition allow for judging to take place a little later than normal, given the existence of posters which might serve as a mitigating factor in the judging criteria. I am unsure whether posters are such a factor but I am asking for a little bit of headroom while the election...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister for her reply. Tidy Towns committees throughout the country will take comfort from her reply insofar as there is that communication between the Minister's officials and SuperValu Tidy Towns. It will not be lost on Supervalu and the Musgrave Group that customers are voters and voters are customers, and I am sure they will allow for that . At least there is clarity of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I stand before her as someone who will not be putting up any more posters on my own behalf. I wholeheartedly support the idea of postering. Perhaps it is easy for me to say this now, given that incumbency is a powerful thing, but when one is trying to get in the door of places like this, the poster is important, as is visibility, and there is a place for it. I share...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: What the Minister of State is saying is that the primary legislation is very clear about inducements. It is worth reiterating because concerns have been expressed by people that a licensee may not offer a person or specific group of persons an inducement. The Minister of State has clarified that.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I again seek clarity about the making of the regulations. There must be some thinking or draft document, even if it is a very early draft. There must be some paper available on what the regulations would look like. As was articulated by Deputy Daly, if the Minister of State has already set out very specific asks or points in section 148, one would assume the Department would have at least...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister of State has provided some clarity. I seek further clarity, and forgive me if I sound pedantic in what I am about to say. I will stand corrected if I am wrong. I again ask the Minister of State to clarify section 148(2) which states, "A licensee may not offer a person or specific group of persons an inducement". Do I take it that the practical outworkings of that, where you...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: That is just not true. It is a false statement.

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I congratulate Deputy Higgins on her appointment as Minister of State. I wish her well in the role and I hope that she will have a good, long sojourn in the Department. It is appropriate that the Minister of State is here. Although she may not be the line Minister for this issue, she is the Minister of State in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for...

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

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister and his officials. It is a comprehensive piece of legislation. If it is an opportune moment to do so, I want to ask the Minister of State about the status of the chief scientific adviser and when he envisages that role will be appointed.

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

Seán Sherlock: I agree with the spirit of what Deputy Boyd Barrett is suggesting by way of his amendment. He raised the point about increased militarisation that funding at a European Commission level could start to tilt towards funding for militarisation. I was glad that earlier the Deputy gave recognition to the Commission. He quoted from a Commission document. With tongue in cheek do I take it that...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(e) promote research and innovation which supports economic, social, cultural and environmental development and sustainability and human wellbeing, and to so do in co-operation and collaboration with the bodies to which section 51 applies and such other persons and bodies in the higher...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(2) In the performance of its functions the Agency shall— (a) accord due recognition and equal respect to research and innovation in all fields of activity and disciplines in the higher education and research system and the research and innovation system, and (b) ensure that,...

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...