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- 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.
- 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.