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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose we publish on the committee website the following documents provided by the Department of Education - the opening statement, the briefing, the letter about the supporting Traveller and Roma, STAR, project and the letter about the homework clubs. Is that agreed? Agreed. I suggest we invite our witnesses to speak for between five and ten minutes and allow members to ask questions...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask for a response from the Department.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That testimony was incredibly powerful and goes to the nub of the issue. I respect that we have been given a lot of figures here today, but the figure that tells all is that of the very low completion rate in school. Until that is equal for all, we are failing. I noticed that there are 8,309 students in primary schools and 3,370 in secondary schools. Unless there has been a huge...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Maybe we will let Senator Joe O'Reilly come in. That will give Senator Flynn an opportunity to hear the witnesses' replies when she comes back in. Would that be okay with Ms O'Neill?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask Ms O'Neill to respond first to Senator Flynn and then to Senator Joe O'Reilly.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry for interrupting, but will Mr. Hanlon give us the figures again please? There is a figure here of 1,044. What is that referring to exactly?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is that 1,044 Traveller children?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: For comparative purposes, would a fair percentage of the other children be in special schools?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They might have physical disabilities, significant intellectual disabilities and so on. Is that correct?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What would be very useful for us would be a comparison of like with like. Nobody here would argue about a child with high dependency levels or special educational needs, as long as it is equal to all, but given the figures, it appears that there has been a dramatic drop in the number of children on short days since this reporting process started. Is there any evidence of that?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are they double-counted?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What we need to ensure is that this practice is clamped down on because sometimes there is a perception that Traveller children cannot compete like with like. Obviously, when a person is from a Traveller background, he or she is nearer to disadvantages in accommodation. I will come back to that in a minute. I will mention the education of the parents. There are a few very educated parents...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Ms O'Neill can keep going.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If we are gaining.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: A child does not attend every day, do all the classes, and then suddenly not sit the exam and leave school. I take it that if a child or student gets through those first three years but does not make it, that the history has been of absenteeism, non-engagement and so on, and that it is a progression. Then, when they come to exams, they balk and decide to leave school. Everything else in...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It might be in the data we have got in the report. If it is not, Ms O'Neill might give us that.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The is fine, Senator. I have just a few quick points-----
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, go ahead.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I turn to a specific group of Travellers living on halting sites. I will go back to what I said about the child trying to do homework in the caravan. That was the only room in the house aside from very small bedrooms. Have there been any discussions, or is there any forum where discussions could take place with local authorities, about local authority halting sites to make sure there would...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am interested in the date of publication.