Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 December 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion

2:30 pm

Ms Breda Corr:

Deputy O'Loughlin talked about the specific statement of non-discrimination and the other matters being hard-coded into the legislation. Our worry is that some of the matters will be put into regulation and would be subject to change, for instance, with a change of Minister. Being hard-coded into the Act might involve another line to state specifically that the above provisions do not apply to schools. I refer to the interview and the other issues I mentioned. We have discussed the matter with the Department and we hope it will take that on board. These are not significant amendments. It would be better that there would not be problems in five years' time that it is not in the primary legislation and it is in the regulations which are subject to change. It will be in the legislation and not subject to change.

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