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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
...guidelines is to use restricted timetables in a positive context. It is supposed to be a positive intervention. There are plans in place to reintegrate people back into school. This cannot be a long-term solution to anything. That is where it is coming from.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Eileen Flynn: ...While I had an overall good experience, I had nasty comments like “Why aren’t you off getting married?” and those stereotypes that unfortunately professional teachers still have today. That is changing, along with training and education for teachers and, as Deputy Stanton said, having members of the Traveller community in the teaching profession. Traveller education...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: ...we are failing. I noticed that there are 8,309 students in primary schools and 3,370 in secondary schools. Unless there has been a huge demographic shift, because primary school is eight years long and secondary school is six years long, one would expect that there would be 8,000 children in the secondary schools, give or take. Yet, there are 3,370 of them there. Therefore, from the...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Ms Cliodhna O'Neill: We had a meeting yesterday with our adviser group on DEIS and we had a long conversation about the importance of home school liaison and exactly what the Senator is saying, in particular the important role it plays for many children. That is why we have expanded the programme to take in those schools and to support schools. Ms Waterhouse may have something to add.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What would be very useful for us would be a comparison of like with like. Nobody here would argue about a child with high dependency levels or special educational needs, as long as it is equal to all, but given the figures, it appears that there has been a dramatic drop in the number of children on short days since this reporting process started. Is there any evidence of that?