Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad Éireann — 2022-07-06 ============================================================ Malcolm Byrne (FF), Cultural and Educational Panel There is a misrepresentation around this piece of legislation that it safeguards academic autonomy. This is not a piece of legislation that has anything to do with academic autonomy and there are specific safeguards built into legislation around this. This is to do with questions around governance and financial accountability. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2022-07-06/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-09-21T01:01:02+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-07-06