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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I would like to break.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Do these amendments relate to Irish?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 20:In page 6, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(c) a school which teaches through the medium of Irish, and which gives priority in its admission policy to students who speak Irish as a home language, the admission statement of the school shall include a statement that the school does not discriminate in relation to the admission of students where...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I just think that we should speak Irish when we are talking about the language. Ba mhaith linn sna leasaithe seo athraithe a dhéanamh ar an bpolasaí maidir le daltaí agus teaghlaigh a bhfuil Gaeilge acu sa bhaile agus an ceart a thabhairt do scoileanna tús áite a thabhairt do na daoine sin, más mian leo. Faoi láthair, tá cuid de na Gaelscoileanna ag...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Tá mé sásta fanacht go dtí an chéad Stáitse eile. Feicfimid ansin cad atá le cur ar fáil ag an Aire. Tá an t-Aire ceart nuair a deireann sé gur féidir le scoileanna tús áite a thabhairt do na páistí seo. Ní féidir leo a leithéid a dhéanamh ach trí agallamh, áfach. They can only do that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I withdraw it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: May I wait until the Minister-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: My amendments are self-explanatory. Amendment No. 45 seeks to expand what is already in the legislation to put more flesh on the bones, so to speak. It is obviously an issue of some interest in the committee tonight, and an important one. I will not press the other amendment on catchment areas because I am willing to listen-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is amendment No. 47. I think they are my two in that group. I fundamentally disagree with Deputy Ryan's amendment.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is the same.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: What amendment is that?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: That is my main concern about it. There does not seem to be any objective research on this. As the Minister said, he is trying to strike a fair bargain between different views rather than coming up with evidence-based policy. It is not an issue of which I have direct experience from my constituents in certain areas. Is it as big a problem as is being made out? Has the Minister done the...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: For example, if a child in senior infants was sixth, would the list end before he or she would go to secondary school? Is that it?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I thought the approach could be that it would be from whatever the date of the first publication of this legislation would be, but that might have the same effect.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: In other words, a child in senior infants who is on a list now would probably not be subject to the list.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: That is reasonable.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Yes.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: One difficulty I have with this measure is that it is clearly not necessary in schools that do not already follow the practice. Will it encourage schools which do not have a quota to have one? Is there a way this could be stopped? The practice has gone on forever and I see no good reason to stop it, but neither do I see any good reason to start it. This issue may have been missed. If a...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is not more legitimate. People have different views.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is not a question of the Deputy's view being legitimate and mine illegitimate.