I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “ “academic member” means a member of An tÚdarás who, at the time of his appointment as such member, held an academic post; “academic post” means a post in an institution of higher education (other than a post as chief officer) all or part of the duties of the holder of which is to teach any students of the institution or to carry out research;”. As Senator Higgins rightly points out, this amendment needs to be seen in the context of more substantive amendments that come up later in the Bill in respect of the constitution and composition of the board of an t-údarás.
Considering we intend for the HEA board to be a competency-based board and not to define its membership as an academic or trade union member or the likes, I therefore do not see why I would define "academic member" in section 2.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 3,376 words from 12 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators David Norris and Michael McDowell; Níl, Senators Seán Kyne and Lisa Chambers.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–19 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–20 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 13–21 |
| Question put: "That the Order of Business be agreed to." | Carried | 21–14 |
| Question put: : | Carried | 26–13 |
| Question put: | Carried | 30–16 |
| Question put: | Carried | 30–11 |
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