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- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have a shower every day.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of industrial action looming at a company (details supplied), the measures he plans to take to address the issues of zero hour contracts and excessive use of temporary contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11958/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of talks between the European Union and the United States of America on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; the meetings he has attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11959/15]
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a little confused by the Minister's comments. On the one hand, she is proposing that the default position is that a public inquiry would be held but she also indicates that there are many hoops to be gone through before getting to a public hearing. I am sympathetic to the concerns expressed by teachers, particularly in Ireland, which is such a small place. That is one of the points...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, although teaching is not like politics or midwifery. In the midwifery area, people have either complied with the proper medical procedure or they have not. It is reasonable where there is negligence or professional misconduct, or an allegation of same, for the hearing to occur in public. Teaching is different. We are a small country so although international comparisons have some...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, line 18, after “Oireachtas” to insert “and shall be immediately informed of this”. In fact this is my amendment in the name of Deputy Daly. The point of the amendment is that, as I have been informed, if someone is not registered or is removed or suspended from the register of the Teaching Council he or she is not paid, and...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is happening.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is happening.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does if it is a requirement to inform them.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was told this by a teacher. I will go back before Report Stage and report what the Minister said, but I was informed that this does happen and it clearly is unfair. Whatever is in place now is not adequate from the account I was given. I do not understand why it is a problem for the Teaching Council. Even though it does not pay people I do not see why it is a big deal to ask the...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It can inform them that the legislation means they will not be paid. It could say, "You are not registered and the consequence of that, according to legislation, is that you will not be paid". Why can the Teaching Council not tell them that?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will return to it on Report Stage.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, line 26, to delete “fit and proper” and substitute “qualified”. This section deals with the fitness of teachers to teach and be admitted to the register. The concern raised in the amendment is that the term "fit and proper" is too subjective and is open to abuse or a subjective interpretation which is too wide. Obviously, one...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I gave it as an example.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the point. That is the reason I make reference in amendment No. 7 to the national vetting bureau in the legislation. My aim is to try to ensure that how "fit and proper" is defined by the council in making its decisions is not open to some type of over-subjective viewpoint. I take the point that qualification is only one dimension. The other dimension, as the Minister says, is that...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those guidelines are not on a statutory footing, so they could change at any point.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it not be an idea to define it in the Bill?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. That is why there is a need to define it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made the point, and I will not labour it. That should be defined in the Bill. The Minister should consider that because it is very subjective. It is a reasonable term to use, but it must be defined. Otherwise people-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we just have and I am inviting the Minister to say whether there is any other dimension to it. We agree here that "fit and proper" means qualified and vetted according to the legislation. There is the definition. The definition of "fit and proper"-----