Research Funding
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-11
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

There are in the region of 10,000 PhD researchers in this country. It is accurate to say that much of the higher education system is run on the basis of their exploitation, because the vast majority of them are earning less than the minimum wage for teaching in our universities and institutions. Will the Minister commit to treating them as workers and to paying them a minimum wage of at least €30,000 a year?

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Sitting date: 2025-12-11