Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Obviously we intend to ensure that every child is protected and that there are proper child protection policies in schools. The vetting procedures, which we will discuss later, are in place in the schools. People should have due regard for the people who have unsupervised access to children, be they volunteers or employees, in the school setting. I do not intend to change the management structure of the schools but it is always important to ensure that boards of management are properly trained, aware of their legal obligations and keep child protection to the fore in all the policies they implement.

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