EnactedStage in the legislative process — click for what it means1/2024Official bill number / year
Research and Innovation Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
- Introduced
- 8 Jan 2024
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2024
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Dissolves Science Foundation Ireland and transfers all its staff, assets, and liabilities to new agency Taighde Éireann, merging research funding functions across all disciplines.
- Establishes Taighde Éireann to award competitive research funding, support researcher excellence and retention, and promote research's contribution to economic, social, cultural and environmental development.
- Amends Higher Education Authority Act 2022 to transfer certain research-related staff, assets and liabilities from higher education authority to Taighde Éireann; repeals related provisions from 2003-2014 Acts.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil8 Jan 2024
- Second Stage33rd Dáil8 Feb 2024
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil28 Feb 2024
- Report Stage33rd Dáil6 Mar 2024
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil6 Mar 2024
- Second Stage26th Seanad6 Mar 2024
- Committee Stage26th Seanad20 Mar 2024
- Report Stage26th Seanad15 May 2024
- Fifth Stage26th Seanad21 May 2024
- Cream List33rd Dáil29 May 2024
- Enacted4 Jun 2024