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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is happening.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does if it is a requirement to inform them.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was told this by a teacher. I will go back before Report Stage and report what the Minister said, but I was informed that this does happen and it clearly is unfair. Whatever is in place now is not adequate from the account I was given. I do not understand why it is a problem for the Teaching Council. Even though it does not pay people I do not see why it is a big deal to ask the...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It can inform them that the legislation means they will not be paid. It could say, "You are not registered and the consequence of that, according to legislation, is that you will not be paid". Why can the Teaching Council not tell them that?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will return to it on Report Stage.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, line 26, to delete “fit and proper” and substitute “qualified”. This section deals with the fitness of teachers to teach and be admitted to the register. The concern raised in the amendment is that the term "fit and proper" is too subjective and is open to abuse or a subjective interpretation which is too wide. Obviously, one...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I gave it as an example.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the point. That is the reason I make reference in amendment No. 7 to the national vetting bureau in the legislation. My aim is to try to ensure that how "fit and proper" is defined by the council in making its decisions is not open to some type of over-subjective viewpoint. I take the point that qualification is only one dimension. The other dimension, as the Minister says, is that...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those guidelines are not on a statutory footing, so they could change at any point.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it not be an idea to define it in the Bill?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. That is why there is a need to define it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made the point, and I will not labour it. That should be defined in the Bill. The Minister should consider that because it is very subjective. It is a reasonable term to use, but it must be defined. Otherwise people-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we just have and I am inviting the Minister to say whether there is any other dimension to it. We agree here that "fit and proper" means qualified and vetted according to the legislation. There is the definition. The definition of "fit and proper"-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We can say that too.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I have made the point.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Which one?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In respect of a reference to the council’s code of conduct, “that he or she has engaged in conduct contrary to a code of professional conduct established by the Council under section 7(2)(b);” there is an ongoing dispute between the Minister and the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, about junior certificate reform. A concern was expressed to me that one...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If, in the course of an industrial dispute between the Minister and the teachers about policy changes teachers refuse to implement some of those policy changes, as part of a legitimate industrial dispute, there will be no question of this legislation being used to de-register them.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My point is about the code of conduct. Under section 15-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was reading section 15 of the Bill. I apologise.