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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 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.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I will support it, but only if it is absolutely necessary. The Minister has not convinced me.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister withdraw the amendment and then bring it back on Report Stage? If he can make the case that it is essential, I have no difficulty, but I do not think-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I will put down an amendment to delete that on Report Stage and I will wait to hear what the Minister says then.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I am not pressing my amendment No. 122 but I support the Sinn Féin amendment No. 96.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I have to give out and I do not wish to take this out on Deputy Nolan. This is typical of Sinn Féin to go too far with Irish language requirements and start annoying people about it. We should be trying to stop that. Tá grá agam don Ghaeilge agus is breá liom a bheith á labhairt agus á cur chun cinn. However, in this amendment, Sinn Féin is requiring...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is the same as the previous amendment that required everyone in the agency to speak Irish at all times and that translation facilities should not be provided. That is going too far. That would damage the language. That is why I have voted against the Irish language amendments. I have huge respect for the language and I try to speak it as often as I can. These amendments go too far and...