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Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Am I right in thinking the Minister is saying that this is embedding the terms of the Croke Park agreement in the legislation by putting the redeployment procedures on a statutory footing? I am opposed to putting redeployment procedures on a statutory footing in this way. To quote by beloved father, "I am cutting stubbles here"; we are both cutting stubbles in revisiting ground that has...

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: More stick than carrot.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Yes. I accept the Minister's point.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: I will be brief as I do not wish to keep this discussion going all evening. I am grateful to the Minister for his responses. There are two questions however. The Minister said there has been a year of this-----

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Yes. Has it been negative without the legislation in place?

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Would it not be better to wait and see how it pans out, to see whether this can be achieved through agreement and to see if the current system works? If the Minister is not sure it is broken yet, why is he seeking to fix it? He is certainly not obliged by the troika or anyone else to put these redeployment procedures on a statutory footing. On the other question I asked, has the Minister...

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: They might not have chosen otherwise, and it goes on to cause-----

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: On a point of clarification, I was not pressing that issue. I presume I do not lose my right to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage if I utter the word "Níl" to the question.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: I am happy to withdraw it. I will consider my position in advance of Report Stage.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: I have a number of brief technical questions. It may be that the drafters of the Bill have already spotted them, but there are three technical issues to be considered. One is not so much a technical drafting issue, but in the proposed section 24(7)(c)(ii) there is a reference to the continued established tenure of a person in a teaching position under an existing contract of employment....

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Section 24.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Page 7. Section 24(7)(c)(ii) reads: (c) Notwithstanding section 30 of the Act of 2001, the Minister, where he or she is satisfied that it is necessary to facilitate— (i) the urgent, temporary or occasional staffing needs of schools, (ii) the continued established tenure of a person in a teaching position under an existing contract of employment... Given that the goal of the section is to...

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Perhaps it is superfluous. Section 24(9)(f) reads: Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c ) of subsection (7), regulations made under this section may provide for one or more than one of the following: (f ) a requirement that a school retain and furnish to the Minister evidence that it has been unable to employ a registered teacher in the place of a registered teacher in a...

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: The first issue I raised concerned section 24(7)(c )(ii) which reads, "the continued established tenure of a person in a teaching position under an existing contract of employment, or...". I asked whether this provision was appropriate, given that it would allow the Minister to provide that certain teachers should continue to be paid from the public purse.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: To assist the Minister, there were two other technical queries. It appears a couple of words are missing in section 24(8) which begins with the words "Notwithstanding the Act of".

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Forgive me for asking, but to whom was the Minister referring when he mentioned "right-wing" colleagues of Senator David Norris?

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Would the Minister care to enlighten us?

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 33: In page 8, line 50, to delete "a registered" and substitute "an unregistered". I believe the Minister has accepted it. I think we can agree on it.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: Would the use of the word "another" be better? This does not seem terribly clear. I take the Minister's point that there is a true meaning which I had not spotted.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister has given a very good response as to why I should not press it.