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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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Just before the vote, one of the things I wrote down was that the Senator did not want academic freedoms to be threatened and I entirely agree with that. I also do not want any individual, member of an academic staff or a student in any university or HEI to feel threatened by who they are for whatever reason. In my understanding, that is what the whole concept of this framework is, given...
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: In relation to this aspect, I am sure that if we had an academic perpetrating antisemitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Islamic or Islamophobic ideas within the confines of a higher education institute, we would want to have a charter, a set of rules and a set of principles to ensure that person was not allowed to promulgate that sort of hate.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: I agree with the Senator.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am sure that in Germany in the 1930s, there were people who proffered that ideology when it came to ensuring certain curriculums within German universities and schools when it came to the Jewish people were of a certain type and became the norm.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: The HEIs as independent entities have HR and IR mechanisms and scaffolding to protect individuals and to investigate, where appropriate, if people bring allegations or any sort of complaint against an academic or non-academic member of staff. I am just wondering if it is on the basis of gender equality plans that the Senator has the greatest level of difficulty with this situation or is it...
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: What exactly would be scientifically illiterate?
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is that the fundamental issue the Senator has?
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Would the Senator accept there has to be a gateway?
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Would the Senator accept that the United States, Canada, India and other First World developed countries are wrong?
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: I will not do so either.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say it is a fringe issue, and to characterise it as that is a misrepresentation. The Senator can read back over the transcript of the debate. I never characterised it as that. To be fair, the Senator has not enunciated what are the positives of the charter and the goals associated with it.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: No, but the Senator has zoned in on a particular element of this matter and asked me for sets of guarantees even though I am not the employer of any academic in Ireland.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Any academic in Ireland has a right to recourse through his or her employer if they feel they need it. Bullying is a very serious issue. The Senator mentioned the word "bullied". If any academic or non-academic member of staff or a student in a university or HEI governed under the auspices of the Higher Education Authority Act 2022 is bullied or in any way impeded from progression, they...
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: They also know that the Minister of the day does not have direct line responsibility for this issue. They know too that the HEIs collaborating with the HEA have worked on this subject over a long time. I think there was a review of this issue in the early 2000s. To be honest about it, the fundamental question the Senator asked me is if I can give guarantees regarding career progression or...
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Sorry, hold on a second now-----
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say that.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Senator is doing a good job of it now.
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, and if the Senator is-----
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: If the Senator is going to quote me, I ask him to least quote me accurately-----
- 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)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----or perhaps the Senator is not happy with the facts.