Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I deliberately called it a task force on student behaviour, which is quite a wide definition. People are invited to make submissions on anything that relates to this subject. I know the task force will be very happy to consider them. The members of the task force are practitioners in all the various sectors of education. They represent parents, teachers, principals and people outside the mainstream education sector and people identified as top class practitioners in their own right. The ASTI and the TUI both asked for this task force to be set up and have expressed their willingness to work very closely with it. I am quite satisfied that anything that would refer to student behaviour can and will be examined by the group.

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