Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Interim Report on Reduced Timetables: Minister for Education and Skills

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

Noel Kelly. He was superb. He was very clear that this was a suspension or an expulsion where these reduced timetables were being brought in in an unorthodox fashion. It would be useful for the document to remind school authorities of that also.

There is also a section 5 on this about supports available to schools.

I am not sure it is required to have a plug for the Department of Education and Skills or another body. We know everything that is done but the document needs to take the form of a circular. It does not appear to be written in that way, although it may have been rushed. I do not mean any disrespect because to be fair to the Minister, if the document is read in the way I would like it to be read, it can be considered to be very strict. However, if it were more precise, it would help everybody. I do not mean to be facetious or to be nitpicking but we all agree-----

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