Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The more I look at the document that is written, it does not look like the type of document that normally emanates from the Department of Education and Skills. That may be because it emanated from Tusla but it does not look like a circular the Department would issue. I say that without disrespect to anybody. It does not appear to be written with the same level of precision one normally associates with Department of Education and Skills documents or circulars. They are normally extremely precise. This document needs to be much clearer as to the circumstances in which these reduced timetables can happen and the procedures thereafter. In terms of No. 4, the key requirements, that mixes up the reasons for this with the procedures. The procedures are long and drawn out and could be easily reduced to bullet points in terms of doing this or that.

The form does not require any evidence as to the necessity for the reduced timetables when that is a key requirement, according to what the Minister said today. From my reading of it, that is not required to be provided. The form also refers to a right of appeal. I am not clear on that right of appeal. The only appeal I am aware of would be under section 29 in terms of appeals against suspension or expulsion. To what does that refer?

The document would do well to quote what the gentleman from Tusla - I do not recall his name-----