Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency

11:05 am

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Surely, the idea of an education board is to make it representative in the sense of people who are elected by the community. I would have thought that ideally, everyone would be elected to it. Consequently, if one resiles from having that kind of representative, it actually undermines local representation on those boards.