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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: The amendments are interesting and they certainly raise issues. I am not supportive of amendment No. 2. However, there is no question that arguments can be made for it. My worry is that the ethos of the school becomes affected. I do not know how we distinguish between religious instruction, faith formation and the ethos of a school because they are intertwined in some ways. Deputy...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: On a point of clarification, Deputy Shortall is not a member of the committee and has no vote. Can she call a vote?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I am not encouraging Deputy Shortall but I was wondering.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Could Deputy Catherine Martin have called a vote even though she did not put it forward?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Could I, Deputy Catherine Martin or Deputy Shortall or her equivalent have called a vote there?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 11:In page 6, line 4, after "concerned" to insert the following:"except where the admission policy states that it is the school's explicit policy to give preference to children from the Traveller community in admissions". I will not delay matters too long. The amendments in different circumstances allow the Minister to require schools either individually or collectively...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: We will bring them back on Report Stage having discussed the matter with the Minister and our colleagues.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: In so far as it relates to-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Amendment No. 83.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Amendment No. 83 is about the catchment area for the purposes of school admissions, so I do not know why it is grouped here but I have made my point about it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Amendment No. 82 enables the Minister to require schools to apply positive discrimination in their admissions policy. For example, it follows on from the previous one so it inserts the same-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Sorry. So it should not have been amendment No. 83-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: At the break, could somebody place amendment No. 83 in the right grouping? It might not come up until then.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Considering what the Minister has said, I withdraw it and will perhaps re-present it on Report Stage. Indeed, the Chair has a Bill on adding socioeconomic status as a grounds for discrimination.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: If that legislation was passed, it would certainly cover the homeless situation.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Yes. Could this lead to indirect discrimination against children with special needs or certain categories of them?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Okay. Could it be used by a school to say that certain children's needs are a bit too complex for the school?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Definitely not?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I have concerns about this. I wonder if category of need is defined. It struck us when we read it. We have had representations asking us to table amendments similar to this. We took a look at them and thought that we could not propose them. They looked to us like something one would not want to propose. On that basis, this amendment does not look something I want to support either....
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: We know this happens all the time in any event but I would not like to put it into legislation.