Ann Ormonde (Fianna Fail)

This is good legislation. It has been welcomed by all the educational partners. It certainly has tidied up the appeals area because when appeals were made to a board of management, there was no tight procedure for dealing with them. This legislation will make it clear to education administrators in schools how to handle such matters. If there is a code of behaviour, the policies are in place therefore, and the key to it, as the Minister stated, is to get that balance right. This legislation has done that. I welcome it and, from having spoken to other teachers, I know they do as well. It is clear. The procedures are laid out and all children in a school will know exactly where they stand in the case of policies and what will happens when they break the rules.