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

The Minister is setting out what powers he will have if schools do not comply with the law. It emphasises the point I made earlier that it is essential that schools are given help and resources to be able to do this because we are now looking at a big job that boards of management in schools will have to do to comply with this legislation, most of which will never have one issue with it at all. The Bill will hardly have any impact on the vast majority of schools but there is still a lot of work to do to comply with it. I urge the Minister to make clear to schools what assistance, advice and resource he and ETBs will be giving to schools in order to comply.

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