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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, subsection (2), between lines 41 and 42, to insert the following: “(g) bodies representative of business, industry and employers,”.The purpose of my amendments Nos. 8 and 22 is to ensure that bodies representative of business, industry and employers are consulted, both in the performance by an education and training board of its functions...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 9: In page 15, subsection (2), lines 1 to 7, to delete paragraphs (a) and (b) and substitute the following: “(a) in accordance with procedures determined by the Minister following consultation with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and (b) with the consent of the Minister.”.The purpose of the amendments is twofold. First, the current...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Not at this point.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 10: In page 15, subsection (3), to delete lines 10 to 14 and substitute the following:“remuneration, allowances and superannuation, as may be determined by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.”.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Section 15 places an obligation on the chief executive of each ETB to provide such information to the board regarding the performance of his or her functions as the board might from time to time require. This obligation relates specifically to the CEO's functions. Any function which is not declared by section 12 to be a function reserved to the elected members is, by definition, an...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 12: In page 16, subsection (2), lines 29 and 30, to delete “A notice of intention to propose a resolution under subsection (1)” and substitute the following: “Where an education and training board intends to propose a resolution to suspend the chief executive of that board for any of the reasons set out in subsection (1), a notice of intention to...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: No.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: We are using the current system and practice in local government. The purpose is to harmonise it because we are talking about people who, in many cases, will also be members of local authorities. If new local government legislation changes that, it might be necessary to harmonise it with this legislation. I am not sure whether that local government legislation could necessarily amend this...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 13: In page 16, subsection (3)(a), line 33, to delete “one third” and substitute “half”.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 14: In page 17, subsection (5), line 8, to delete “two thirds” and substitute “three quarters”.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 15: In page 18, before section 18, to insert the following new section: 18.--(1) The Minister may, subject to this section, suspend a chief executive of an education and training board--(a) for stated misbehaviour, or (b) where it appears necessary to the Minister for the effective performance by the board of its functions. (2) Where the Minister proposes to suspend a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 16: In page 18, subsection (1), lines 9 to 15, to delete paragraphs (a) and (b) and substitute the following:“(a) in accordance with procedures determined by the Minister following consultation with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and (b) with the consent of the Minister,”.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The effect of amendment No. 17 would be to require ETBs to appoint women and men in equal numbers. Having a diversity of views in organisations is of huge benefit. However, the introduction of gender quotas in public service recruitment is not something I am aware of and it is not appropriate for me, as Minister for Education and Skills, to seek to impose this in respect of one set of...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am aware of some of the concerns that have informed this debate and the amendment being discussed and we can return to this on Report Stage if necessary. There will be no change in the constituency of Donegal, where there is already a very large Gaeltacht area. There will be Gaeltacht areas within the enlarged Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB and Kerry can be included here also. It seems...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The fact is that currently VECs are public bodies and in future, the ETBs will be public bodies. As a consequence, they fall within the terms of the Official Languages Act 2003, which is statutory legislation as distinct from a policy strategy, which is what the 20-year strategy for the Irish language is. I take on board the Deputy's point that a policy strategy is different to legislation....

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: That is my understanding and that is the advice I have. The 20-year strategy is a policy position rather than statutory legislation. However, the Official Languages Act 2003, which I was in the course of describing when Deputy O'Brien arrived, is law and that Act, among other things, obliges public bodies, which the VECs are and the ETBs will be, to meet the relevant Irish language...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 21: In page 22, subsection (8), line 19, to delete “in” and substitute “of”. The purpose of this amendment is to correct a typographical error. Section 24 deals with the accountability of the CEO to certain Oireachtas committees. At the moment, subsection (8) excludes certain committees from this provision. It refers to the "Committee on...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 22: In page 23, subsection (4)(f), line 16, to delete “and” and substitute the following: “(g) bodies representative of business, industry and employers, and”.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 23: In page 24, to delete line 25 and substitute the following: “27.--(1) Where a person-- (a) makes an offer of a gift of money, land or other property to an education and training board, or (b) requests the board to act as a trustee of any trust or charity, the chief executive of that board shall, within one month of the offer or request being made, prepare and...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 24: In page 24, subsection (1), line 26, to delete "or" and substitute "and".These are all drafting amendments. Amendment No. 24 simply changes the requirement of an education and training board to consider observations or recommendations of the chief executive officer in regard to a proposed gift or trust to a requirement to consider observations and recommendations....