Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 62:

In page 17, to delete lines 30 to 37 and substitute the following:

“(vii) the date and time on which an application for admission was received by the school, subject to subsection (11) and subject to the application being received at any time during the period specified for receiving applications set out in the annual admission notice of the school for the school year concerned or, where appropriate, at any time during the period as otherwise determined by the school in accordance with this Act or regulations made under this Act,”.

Amendment No. 62 substitutes a new subsection for subsection 62(7)(e)(vii) to ensure that there is clarity in the wording of this section where it provides that schools must not use selection criteria based on the date and time that an application was received. This prohibits schools from applying a first come, first served approach to admissions and ensures newcomers to an area are not disadvantaged. The adjusted wording to this provision makes clearer that schools are still allowed to require applications to be made within certain timelines as set out in the Bill but that applications received within those timelines may not be ranked according to the date or time of being received.

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