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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Thomas Byrne: ...áilte a chur roimh gach duine de na finnéithe atá ag an gcruinniú inniu. The Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, is represented by Mr. John Boyle and Ms Anne McElduff. The Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, is represented by its president, Ms Joanne Irwin, and by Mr. David Duffy and Mr. John MacGabhann. The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, ASTI, is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Ms Joanne Irwin: The TUI represents more than 16,000 practitioners, including teachers who work in the education and training boards and in community, comprehensive and voluntary secondary schools. The TUI is of the view that the two proposed pieces of legislation are contradictory and mutually exclusive. We contend that the Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 is mistaken, if well-intentioned,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Go raibh maith agat. The TUI's views were very clearly expressed. As we have a busy meeting, I ask all speakers to keep to the allotted time as far as possible. I call Ms Jane Hayes-Nally of the Irish Second-Level Students Union.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Jim Daly: ...advocacy role of an ombudsman for education, my issue with the Ombudsman for Children is that his remit is too narrow, as is evident from 75% of the complaints. Somebody said - it might have been the TUI representative but I apologise if I am wrong - it is only 300 complaints per year in the context of 4,000 schools and 917,000 students. However, the vast majority of parents would not...