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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I have a quick question. If we look at it logically, when we say that the curriculum is the same and the guidelines are the same, but that is just on paper. A school or a teacher can take them and say they follow the guidelines but Mr. Curtis said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I was speaking on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, but that was because it related to the issue. I was only referring to a phrase he used that was related to the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Mr. Curtis talked about being mediated by ethos. Everything seems to be mediated by the characteristic spirit and by ethos. Both delegates talked about the challenges and obstacles, such as trying to balance the co-trustees. In their honest opinions, is the only way forward to remove characteristic spirit and ethos from our schools?

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister and his officials for giving me time between the last occasion on which we considered this and now to come to some agreements. I welcome the Minister's acceptance of amendment No. 3. It gets rid of the lack of clarity over where a child can be placed on a waiting list. I accept all the related amendments. I am referring to amendments Nos. 1, 2, 5 and the others in the...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, lines 8 to 11, to delete all words from and including "error" in line 8 down to and including line 11 and substitute the following:"error— (a) where the failure or error related to the admission of a student to a school or special class, by admitting the student to the school or special class concerned, or (b) where the failure or error related to a...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: On a point of order, do the last amendments not need to be seconded on Report Stage to be valid?

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Senator Colette Kelleher could not be here today but she asked me to note that she welcomes the Minister's wording. Had she been here, she would have withdrawn her amendment.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome amendment No. 23. I thank the Minister for agreeing to a review of this section of the Bill. I would like to see how the priority in admissions that is given to minority-religion schools is working in practice. The results of the review will be welcome in establishing that. I thank the Minister again for taking this proposal on board. I appreciate that this means amendment No....

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I fully support the Sinn Féin amendment, mainly because I do not think many students from English-language primary schools make the shift to Irish-language schools at second level. The amendment will provide protection in some regions and some places. I do not support the amendment tabled by my colleague, Senator Grace O'Sullivan, which would apply further down the age bracket. I know...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Senator Gallagher can correct me if I am wrong but when asking whether it applies to all schools that does not undermine the point about the schools this will have an impact on. Even if the Minister says this applies to all schools that is still discriminatory because my parents did not go to second level school. I left school at the age of 15. My grandparents did not go to second level...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Clongowes has been mentioned. I am just mentioning that the Minister went to the same school. That is not a personal attack. It is a fact.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: It is not an attack, it is only a fact that I would have no issue in sending my child to a private boys school had I had a son, I just would not want to be actively discriminated against because I did not have the second level education and my parents and grandparents did not have second level education that would be required for me to be able to enrol my child in such a school.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 20:In page 31, line 6, to delete "concerned." and substitute the following:"concerned;(xv) age-appropriate guidelines for primary and post-primary schools, respectively, in relation to students who do not wish to attend religious instruction or classes.".

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 21:In page 31, line 6, to delete "concerned." and substitute the following:"concerned;(xv) statutory guidelines for schools in preparing arrangements and procedures in relation to the suspension and exclusion of students under section 23 of the Education (Welfare) Act of 2000.".

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: On Committee Stage, the Minister did not accept an amendment I proposed that sought to empower the Minister of the day to make national regulations on suspension and exclusion. His decision was based on the existence of statutory codes under the Education (Welfare) Act 2000, section 23 of which requires schools to draw up codes of conduct and procedures they must follow before students can...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. I suppose I agree that the arrangements are robust. My problem is with how they are being implemented and followed at local level. I would prefer to be in a situation where there is no need for an appeal. I am willing to accept what the Minister is saying. I might follow up this matter through other avenues, such as Tusla or the Department of Children and Youth...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Subsection (1) of the proposed new section looks satisfactory but I have a worry. I do not know whether what is stipulated in subsection (2) is normal practice. Maybe I can be corrected. The amendment makes it almost illegal to answer question. Reference is made to not providing in an application "any information relating to the person's political opinions or religious or philosophical...