Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 10:

In page In page 25, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(1A) Any child who breaches the rules of a children detention school may be sanctioned on the instructions of the Director of the school in a way that is both reasonable, proportionate and within the prescribed limits.

(1B) Without prejudice to the power of the Minister to prescribe limits for the disciplining of children detained in children detention schools, the following forms of sanction shall be prohibited:

(a) corporal punishment or any other form of physical violence;

(b) deprivation of food or drink;

(c) treatment that could reasonable be expected to be detrimental to physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing; or

(d) treatment that is cruel, inhuman or degrading.”.

My amendment explicitly prohibits corporal punishment, the deprivation of food or drink and the psychological, emotional or traumatic treatment, etc. of children.