Written answers

Tuesday, 25 May 2004

Department of Education and Science

School Placement

7:00 pm

Photo of Emmet StaggEmmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 202: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if national schools in the State, which have been grant aided by the State in various ways, can refuse the enrolment of a person who has never been baptised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15636/04]

Photo of Noel DempseyNoel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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It is the responsibility of managerial authorities of schools that are not in a position to admit all pupils seeking entry to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act. In this regard a board of management may find it necessary to restrict enrolment to children from a particular area or a particular age group or, occasionally, on the basis of some other criterion.

On the question of restricting enrolment to children who have been baptised, under section 7 of the Equal Status Act 2000, a primary or post-primary school, which has as an objective the provision of education in an environment which promotes certain religious values, may refuse to admit as a student a person who is not of that denomination provided that the refusal is essential to maintain the ethos of the school.

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