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

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Senators for their contributions. I understand Senator Rónán Mullen's concerns. However, we are talking about a very clear and defined area of potential industrial relations difficulties, namely, the redeployment of a teacher who has become supernumerary to one school and is appointed to a panel from which he or she must, under the employment control framework, be redeployed...

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

Ruairi Quinn: I welcome the Senator's intervention and support. She has probably spent more time on Marlborough Street than I have so far, as I have only been there 11 months. Last March and April there was a barrier to the employment of new teachers until all the people on a panel were cleared from that year. There has been redeployment and the Senator is absolutely correct on that point. People...

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

Ruairi Quinn: Section 8 reads: "Section 30 of the Act of 2001 is amended by substituting "Subject to section 24(7) (inserted by section 6 of the Education (Amendment) Act 2012) of the Education Act 1998, a person who" for "A person who". Amendment No. 41 reads "In page 9, line 41, to delete "section 24(7)" and substitute "subsection (8) of section 24". I am told this is predominantly a technical...

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

Ruairi Quinn: I welcome Senator Norris to the debate. I do not know where he was up to now but I am of the view that he may have been receiving treatment from a psychic because he has anticipated much of the debate that has occurred and a great deal of the etymological exploration of the difference between words such as "agreement" and "consultation". His long years of experience in the Seanad appear to...

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

Ruairi Quinn: No.

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

Ruairi Quinn: It is outside the legislation. It would not be statutorily defined. It would be following consultation-----

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

Ruairi Quinn: No.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I will respond if I may because this is the meat of the Bill. Legislation must be precise in how it is drafted. If one deconstructs section 24(10) and examines it one sees it states the board of a recognised school may - and then goes to the operative verbs - suspend or dismiss or both. The operative agent is the board of a recognised school, and the sentence goes on to qualify how it may...

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

Ruairi Quinn: The purpose of the amendment is to provide for the amendment of section 38 of the Teaching Council Act 2001. This provision clarifies a function of the Teaching Council with regard to programmes of teacher education and training provided by institutions of higher education and training. Section 38 states: "The Council shall, from time to time, (a) review and accredit the programmes of...

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

Ruairi Quinn: I am sorry for the inelegance of the text which I am sure James Joyce would not have written in that way. Perhaps he might have used the words "who are or who are to be" remunerated. I understand that is the sense intended.

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

Ruairi Quinn: Perhaps the words "who are or who are to be" might have been used.

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

Ruairi Quinn: Present or future tense.

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

Ruairi Quinn: We will seek clarification. Let us reflect on the drafting of the text to ensure we have the proper wording. We will come back to the matter on Report Stage.

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

Ruairi Quinn: The Senator proposes on page 6 of the Bill to delete lines seven to 34. Is that correct?

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

Ruairi Quinn: I want to be clear about what we are talking about. This is a long section and we have moved backwards in terms of chronological pages to address this area. The operative phrase is "in accordance with redeployment procedures determined from time to time by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following consultation" and so on. Is that the...

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

Ruairi Quinn: The reason for the reference "in accordance with redeployment procedures determined from time to time by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform" is that in effect, in today's parlance, that is the Croke Park agreement and the fact that in return for an agreement by the social partners and the representative organisations there would be no...

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

Ruairi Quinn: I will try to assist in that regard. The intent of the changes being proposed under the new section 24(5) is to strengthen the legal basis for the redeployment of surplus teachers. In that respect, the Senator is correct. While having fully efficient and effective teacher redeployment arrangements has always been an objective of the Department, it has assumed, as I said in an earlier...

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

Ruairi Quinn: No. In these days the carrot is having employment and a pensionable job; it may not be in the same place as one is currently employed but many people do not have a sense of that in that we have 440,000 people unemployed.

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

Ruairi Quinn: This is the view of the section of the Department. It is considered that we need these extra legal powers to avoid litigation and dispute. We have endeavoured to have as much consultation as possible with the social partners in regard to this in the area. I stress that it is not an attempt to undermine or take away the discretionary powers of patron bodies and individual schools to hire or...

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

Ruairi Quinn: There has been one cycle of experience.