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Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: In respect of amendment No. 31, the power to nominate parents to ETBs rests with national associations of parents. It will be a matter for them through their network of local associations to decide how they nominate parents to each board. On that basis, I do not propose to accept this amendment. While parents' representatives are to be nominated by national associations of parents, those...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I will address the questions raised by the two Deputies. Deputy Troy is correct in pointing out that he could have ended up as the parents' representative in a school in Wexford under the old system.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: The national parents' associations' collective bodies draw their candidates from the parents' associations within each school. If I am on the parents' association of my local school, we collectively come together and put forward candidates for consideration. Under the old legislation, it was not necessary for that candidate to be a parent of a child in the school. Under the new...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: My apologies. Deputy O'Brien asked about whether parents have sufficient expertise to be able to-----

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: Having been a long-standing member of a parents' association both in primary and post-primary school, I know that parents' associations nationally have fairly effective training opportunities in place for parents' representatives to ensure they maximise the opportunity as best they can when they are elected to boards such as this.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 35:In page 28, to delete lines 1 to 7, and substitute the following:“training—(i) at least one of whom shall be a body representative of business, industry and employers, (ii) at least one of whom shall be a body representative of learners, and (iii) at least one of whom shall be a body established for the purpose of representing the interests of persons...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 40:In page 29, line 4, to delete “4 members” and substitute “5 members”.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 41:In page 38, line 5, to delete “under subsection (6)” and substitute “in accordance with subsection (7)”.This is a drafting amendment to rectify an incorrect cross-reference in section 42(5).

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: The Minister, Deputy Quinn, indicated on Committee Stage that the TUI had raised this issue with the Department. My officials inform me that a meeting under the auspices of the Teachers' Conciliation Council is due to convene shortly to discuss this issue. I will not comment further other than to say that such issues are more appropriately dealt with in an administrative or industrial...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 46:In page 55, line 24, after “specified” to insert “in”.This is a technical amendment which adds a word omitted from section 71.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 47:In page 55, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:“(2) Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a vocational education committee in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, shall be read as references to an education and training board, unless the context otherwise...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 48:In page 75, line 56, to delete “(4)”.These are technical amendments which remove additional text which should not appear in the Schedule.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 49:In page 75, line 57, to delete “to”.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 50:In page 82, line 45, after “of” to insert “ “Irish Vocational Education Association”,”.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 51: In page 82, to delete lines 50 to 56, and substitute the following: " definitions: “ ‘education and training board area’ has the same meaning as it has in the Education and Training Boards Act 2013; and ‘Education and Training Boards Ireland’ has the same meaning as it has in the Education and Training Boards Act...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 52: In page 87, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: " Section 18: In subsection (5) to delete “the Irish Vocational Education Association” and substitute “Education and Training ".

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: The Deputy should feel free.

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: As the Deputy is aware, it is a normal legislative instrument and we have heard the phrase "ruled out of order because of a cost on the Exchequer" on numerous occasions. If we are to change this, as the Deputy suggests, the support of every party in the Chamber would be required. He may wish to pursue the issue in another setting. I agree with the Deputy that this is ground-breaking...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to address the House on Second Stage of the Further Education and Training Bill 2013. The further education and training sectors developed in an unco-ordinated way without strategic direction for many years. The vocational education committees, VECs, delivered further education, while FÁS delivered training....