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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Thank you for that. We move now to the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Mr. Tyndall. I invite Ms Dempsey to contribute. I understand that, although there are two chairpersons, Ms Dempsey will make the opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Ms Dempsey. The next witness is Ms Maria Doyle of the Irish Primary Principals' Network, IPPN. I was at the recent IPPN conference. I commend them on a very informative and inspirational conference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank everybody for their insights and observations on the Bills before us. It is not often we have statutory and non-statutory organisations before the committee at the same time but it has been very helpful. There is a common thread in all of this. We all want the best possible scenario for our students in the education system, and we want to ensure there is a place for parents in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Deputy Daly. We are inviting a representative of secondary school students in for the next day that we have witness hearings. I apologise for Deputy Thomas Byrne, who had to leave for another meeting at 5 p.m. I am going to take other questions and comments from members before we go back to the witnesses. With a Government Bill, it is traditional for a member of the main...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: The Deputy will have the opportunity to come back again after the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: If any other members want to put something to the witnesses, they can respond to all the questions. If not, then we will go straight back to the witnesses. I call Senator Ó Clochartaigh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Before going back to the witnesses, I also want to commend Deputy Jim Daly and pay tribute to his resilience in ensuring that we got to debate this measure no matter what. I acknowledge that it is a historic day and it is appropriate that he put it on the record. No matter what the outcome is, if he had not worked on his own Private Members' Bill we would not be discussing the charter today...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Mr. Cottrell is right about that. Principal teachers, and particularly teaching principals, are crippled with the bureaucracy they have to deal with. I will return to the members who have indicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Before we go back there were some specific questions for the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Deputy Daly. He makes the point very well that the role of an ombudsman is also advocacy as well as dealing with all the complaints that come to its office. The role is to identify where there are problems and advocating for the change. I call Mr. Hanevy, who will have the last word.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Mr. Hanvey. I wish to endorse Deputy Martin's suggestion about having the possibility, particularly in a secondary school, of having a student member on a board of management.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Deputy Martin is ahead of herself, not for the first time in terms of good ideas. I would certainly welcome that initiative. I now volunteer with Special Olympics and I worked with them. In the Special Olympics, every board and at every level of the organisation, be it at a local club level, regional, country or global level it is the policy that an athlete is a member of the board and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 44. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department measured the impacts of allowing hedge cutting in August and the impact it may have on wildlife; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 67. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to make departmental funding available for multicultural integration events to communities such as Kildare town which have a large multicultural society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11366/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax incentives and reliefs that will be available to owners of properties in rural towns and villages following on from the Government's launch of the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11935/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to combat the accommodation crisis for students attending UCD in 2017-18; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11483/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the timeframe for the increase in student accommodation for students attending UCD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Data (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of students attending UCD from outside County Dublin for the each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (7 Mar 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Kildare availing of autism spectrum specific services, by the type of service, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11934/17]