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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: In terms of the corporate and financial oversight of the higher education sector and technological universities, the Minister will be aware some third level institutions have got into difficulty over financial decisions. Are there plans to review oversight arrangements or is the Minister happy with them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Is the Minister satisfied the existing legislation can give effect to the financial oversight?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Grade inflation in the leaving certificate is primarily an issue for the Minister for Education but is the Minister concerned that in this and previous years we have seen students who got maximum points not able to get into the course of their choosing? Does he have any empathy for them? Is there anything he would like to see developed to ensure that does not happen in the future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: This committee was intimately involved in hearings in respect of Research Ireland and the resulting legislation. An issue arose in respect of the person appointed acting chief executive ending up in the courts. Will the Minister provide an update on the new agency? Is he happy with its direction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I wish the interim CEO well. Whether it is her or someone else, when does the Minister expect to appoint a permanent CEO?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Seanad amendment No. 1 agreed to.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Seanad amendment No. 2:
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 2: In subsection (3), after “subsection (4)”, to insert “and subsection (6)”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2 to Seanad amendment No. 2: After subsection (3), to insert the following: “(4) Except in the case of Part 24, and any provision where it is otherwise expressly indicated that the provision comes into effect on enactment, the Minister, at least 6 weeks prior to the Minister commencing any provision of this Act under subsection (3), shall— (a) lay...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 2 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 to Seanad amendment No. 2 are out of order.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 to Seanad amendment No. 2 not moved.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Act shall be commenced prior to— (a) the laying before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report by the Minister explaining how compliance with the Aarhus Convention has been assured in the entirety of the Act, and (b) the passing of a...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 5 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Part of this Act shall be commenced until a resolution by both Houses of the Oireachtas is passed in respect of any section, Chapter or Part that the Minister proposes to commence, following a debate in both Houses of at least one hour. (4) A...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 6 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 7 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Part of this Act shall be commenced until a resolution by both Houses of the Oireachtas is passed in respect of any section, Chapter or Part that the Minister proposes to commence, following a debate in both Houses of at least six hours. (4) A...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 7 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Part of this Act shall be commenced until a resolution by both Houses of the Oireachtas is passed in respect of any section, Chapter or Part that the Minister proposes to commence, following a debate in both Houses of at least four hours. (4) A...