Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The purpose of the amendment is to provide for non-compliance with an undertaking given by a registered teacher following an inquiry by the disciplinary committee under section 43 as an additional reason for complaint under section 42, the section dealing with an inquiry by the investigating committee. If a teacher has agreed to measures as part of an inquiry, it makes sense that non-compliance with the measures can be followed up. This is the same structure that applies for other regulators. Section 42(1)(g), dealing with conviction for an offence, is already in the Bill.

On Report Stage I intend to amend the fitness to teach provisions in Part 5 of the 2001 Act, subject to legal advices, to provide that failure to consent to vetting where a vetting disclosure is sought in accordance with the Bill's fitness to teach provisions may also constitute grounds for complaint under the Bill's fitness to teach provisions.