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- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to bring the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007 before the House. In doing so I propose to give effect to a key recommendation of the task force on student behaviour that section 29 of the Education Act 1998 be revisited with a view to amending it to stress the rights of the compliant majority to learn while at the...
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: They are the support teams.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: No, they are the people who will be going into the schools.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: Yes. All those people listed by Deputy O'Sullivan constitute the teams.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: Yes, they are the teams.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: Genuinely not in this case.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: What a confession.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I bet the Deputy wants to hold on to this job all the same.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: There has been no reduction. Up to 82 new teachers will be recruited for the scheme.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: It will not be withdrawn.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: That is not the case.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: Who would carry out the tests?
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: Will teachers have to carry out the blood and urine tests? I am just curious.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I merely wonder whether teachers will have to do the testing.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I simply wonder how it might be implemented.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I merely ask who would carry out the testing in schools.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: No, I am only asking who would do the testing of blood and urine samples.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: It is a reasonable question.
- Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Feb 2007)
Mary Hanafin: I thank Deputies for their interest in the Bill and for their comments, not just concerning discipline but wider issues in education. This Bill is only one element in tackling problems of discipline, which is a serious issue for a small number of schools. In those schools, however, it needs to be addressed. The recommendations of the task force, which are being implemented as we speak,...