Results 4,521-4,540 of 9,820 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is not. It is a different viewpoint. It is equally legitimate and the Deputy should respect it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: In the Deputy's constituency.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 38:In page 7, to delete lines 23 to 27. We do not believe that undersubscribed schools should be free to discriminate on the grounds of religion. This amendment deletes the proviso that they are allowed to refuse on the basis of maintaining the ethos. The ethos is protected under other provisions in the Education Act 1998.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I am happy not to press it on the basis of what the Minister has said. I might come back to it on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I will not oppose the amendments but it relates fundamentally to the issue of school funding, the capitation and what schools are obliged to do with their money. It is all right for us to regulate what schools are allowed to do but it is incumbent on the Government to make sure they are funded properly and are able to do their business without recourse to parents. It should be front and...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I do not.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: May I raise a point of order before a vote is called?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Will the clerk clarify what appears on the record if the amendment is moved and no vote is called? The record shows that Deputy Nolan put it to a vote, does it not? It does not show a roll call?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It would save ten minutes.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: What is put on the record if it ends after the Tá or Níl?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: So it is on the record.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Yes, but it is on the record that the amendment was put and there was a vote.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: We might outline what the alternative is.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 64:In page 10, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(vii) nothing in this subsection shall prohibit a primary school which teaches through the medium of Irish from giving priority in its admissions policy to students who speak Irish as a home language and from requiring that such a student and one of his or her parents or legal guardians should attend...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 83:In page 11, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(f) the catchment area for each school or schools for the purposes of school admissions, which can be sized according to the denominational status of the school based on principles specified by the Minister in regulations under this section.”. On the basis that the Minister is coming back with...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 88:In page 11, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:“(c) the Minister considers it in the best interests of students in an area that a jointly coordinated and operated admissions process is established in a specific area, as may be designated by the Minister, the Minister may apply directions to establish such a jointly coordinated and operated...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I accept what the Minister has said about my amendment. Why is the personal public service number required for sharing? Is that absolutely necessary? People are fairly protective of their PPS numbers. Is it really necessary for schools to have that on this type of local admissions process?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: The amendment is about the board providing information to another board or to a patron.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Whatever about the Department needing it, does the other board or patron need the PPS number? If it was not absolutely necessary, I would recommend not doing it. This has been a huge issue in the past.
- 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 Department managing it. When the Department started taking up this, many people were giving out. Now the Minister is proposing that local school boards might share it.