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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 18:In page 6, line 21, to delete "school." and substitute "school,".

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 19:In page 6, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:"(c) a school that, with the approval of the Minister, provides an education exclusively for students with a specified category or categories of special educational needs, the admission statement of the school shall include a statement that the school may refuse to admit a student who does not have the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: We will withdraw it, pending its reintroduction.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Bill stands, Irish medium schools are not prohibited from prioritising children from Irish-speaking homes. An amendment which provides that such schools do not discriminate within the meaning of the Equal Status Act is not appropriate. There is no provision in that Act and any amendment that proposes to amend the definition of discrimination within that Act would have to be made...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I understand what the Deputies are trying to do, it is just the complexity of how one would do this while still maintaining the cardinal principle of not judging the parents and making their fluency or academic ability the criteria. How do we balance that? That has to considered further.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 25:In page 6, line 28, to delete “Subject to this section, regulations under section 64,” and substitute “Subject to this Act, regulations under this Act”. This amendment extends the provision to which a school admissions policy is subject. The Bill currently provides that a school admissions policy is subject to section 62 of the Bill and...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 26:In page 6, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:“(2) (a) The first draft admission policy under subsection (1) shall be prepared by the board as soon as practicable and in any event not later than 3 months after the commencement of this subsection. (b) Where a board proposes making any amendments to its admission policy the board shall prepare a...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 27:In page 6, line 34, to delete “(2) The board” and substitute “(3) The board”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 28:In page 6, line 36, to delete “(3) The patron” and substitute “(4) The patron”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 29:In page 6, line 37, to delete “ subsection (2)” and substitute “subsection (3)”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 30:In page 6, line 41, to delete “(4) Where” and substitute “(5) Where”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 31:In page 6, line 42, to delete “subsection (3)(b)” and substitute “subsection (4)(b)”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 32:In page 7, line 4, to delete “(5) Where” and substitute “(6) Where”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 33:In page 7, line 5, to delete “subsection (3)(a)” and substitute “subsection (4)(a)”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 34:In page 7, line 5, to delete “subsection (4)” and substitute “subsection (5)”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 35:In page 7, line 9, to delete “(6) An admission policy” and substitute “(7) An admission policy”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 36:In page 7, to delete lines 12 to 19 and substitute the following:“(c) provide that the school shall admit each student seeking admission to the school and each student seeking admission to a special class in the school, other than—(i) where the school or special class concerned is oversubscribed, or (ii) where the parent of a student, when required by...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Yes. As the Deputy explained, the amendment would prohibit schools from prioritising the children of staff or board members. I believe it is a reasonable position that an oversubscribed school may give priority to children of staff members, where it so wishes. For example, from the perspective of facilitating those families, it is sensible that a teacher who works in a school distant from...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I take the point Deputy Byrne is making about arrangements for children who do not wish to participate in the religious programme. As we discussed earlier, many schools are in very different positions. There may be something in this space and I would be willing to come back and consider this on Report Stage. What we ought to be trying to do is not be prescriptive. We should not set...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: No. People who are on a list now could get priority, but that priority would end five years after the Bill is passed.