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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: They were only updated this year, and that was the issue. We had a Gaelscoil which was a designated feeder school, but this year it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Can I also get clarity on section 29? Mr. Hanevy said in his presentation that section 28 was about resolving the issues locally. However, if one looks at the figures for section 29 appeals, in 2012 there were 355 appeals. A total of 141 of these were resolved before a hearing, 66 were upheld and 147 were not upheld. In the previous year, 123 were not upheld, while in the year before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: There is also the issue of a derogation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is the derogation given up-front as well? If a school must declare up-front that it is over-subscribed, does it apply for a derogation before the enrolment process begins, or how does it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Deputy McConalogue asked what will happen if the matter is not resolved at a local level. Mr. Hanevy responded on two occasions that there are other remedies and I ask him to explain the other remedies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is done at the expense of a child's education. We should not lose sight of that fact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. Loftus saying that the board of management will set out the policy, the principal will implement and if he or she fails to do so the matter will be appealed to the board of management which set out the policy initially?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: That does not make sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: I shall outline what has just been said. The board of management will set out the policy, the principal will implement it on behalf of the board of management.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: If he or she does so in the eyes of a parent they will appeal it to the board of management who will adjudicate on its own formulated policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Department needs to re-examine the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Department of Education and Skills may not be here next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: We must reflect on the situation. I will not name schools but students in my constituency transfer from primary to post-primary on the basis of the sibling rule and from English-speaking speaking primary schools into a post primary school that uses the medium of Irish. Some 300 yards down the road, gaelscoil students have been taught through the medium of Irish in primary school but are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, unfortunately.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the FETAC and FÁS arbitrary increasing of fees for special purpose certification without a reasonable notice period that affects essential health and safety training on the FÁS construction skills certification scheme and is passing the burden of the increase on to small business and training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of students during each of the past ten years who have applied for higher education grants assessed on the basis they are estranged from their parents; the number of these grants that were granted . [52571/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times each month since its establishment that Student Universal Support Ireland issues regular payments to students; the number of times SUSI have transferred money to a student in an emergency situation outside of the days where payments have been made automatically because of late processing of the application on the part of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a student under 23 is estranged from their parents that Student Universal Support Ireland will only accept evidence of estrangement from a Health Service Executive social worker for the purposes of attesting to the veracity of the claim for the purposes of the student grant system; that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons the vocational education committee, VEC, was awarded patronage of the new schools in Maynooth, County Kildare; and his plans to hold an inquiry into this matter. [52622/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who had been awarded grants from Student Universal Support Ireland but not yet received a payment from SUSI as of 1 December 2013. [52732/13]