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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this amendment. We should perhaps have philosophy classes instead. The idea there would be instruction in a particular religious denomination or viewpoint during school time inevitably creates a discriminatory atmosphere for, as well as isolation and segregation of those who might not share the school’s religious view or have no religious view. It is wrong. It is not...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Children are sensitive and vulnerable. Making them feel different by pulling them out of a class is tantamount to abuse. There is no other way to put it. If a child is taken out and treated differently from the rest, separated from his or her peers and put wherever else, without guidelines being provided as to how that should be done, it is a form of abuse. Without guidelines, it is left...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we dealing with amendment No. 11?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so I understand, this is to say that it is okay for a school to give preference to Traveller children? Is that the logic behind it?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the logic behind the Government's amendment, but I also see the legitimacy of the concerns expressed about behavioural disorders and the failure to acknowledge or recognise them. I am curious to know why the Minister believes the amendment is necessary.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Minister might allow me to finish. I find it a bit odd that he has been prompted to do this. It suggests children with mainstream needs are clamouring to get into special units for children within specific categories of special need, which I find a little hard to comprehend. What prompted the Minister to introduce the amendment? Is there a major issue-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am curious to know what prompted the Minister to introduce the amendment. It is the case that all legislation is open to all sorts of interpretation. It is not possible to frame legislation that would address all possible bizarre interpretations, but the Minister must have concrete evidence of the experience of parents in trying to get children with mainstream needs into special units...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is that stated in the Bill?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is it again? I cannot quite see it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Page 7.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is exactly what I was coming to.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a bit of a problem. How do we define what is maintaining the ethos of a school, or how does a school make the case it is necessary to discriminate to protect the ethos of the school? It is not clear to me whether it is clear in the legislation. I do not think it is from reading it. If a school is undersubscribed it is clearly and explicitly prohibited from discriminating. A...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15:In page 6, to delete lines 13 to 21. Amendment No. 15 has not been ruled out of order, so I will move on to the substantial issue in a moment. I am making another point to the Minister which he has not really satisfactorily answered, namely, even from its own point of view and its stated objectives, the legislation is defective. The Minister stated that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at all. I just said I am not going to do that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was being totally specific. You have just allowed another member to talk about a totally different amendment. I just said I am not going to talk about amendment No. 15 because we will be talking about it in a minute. I am talking about the amendment-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on amendment No. 15. We are on amendment No. 14.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My apologies.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Then I will talk on amendment No. 15, although I had been dealing with amendment No. 14. My initial comments were about amendment No. 14 before I moved on to amendment No. 15.