John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will sanction the release of school inspector reports on all schools here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32695/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I announced some time ago that in the future reports arising from the inspection of schools and centres of education will be published. Consultations have been held with the educational partners and draft guidelines for the publication of inspection reports have been prepared and issued by the inspectorate of my Department to the educational partners in recent weeks. Following responses from the partners in the near future, a final draft of the guidelines will be submitted to me for my consideration in December 2005.

I intend that the publication of inspection reports will commence from January 2006 for all inspections carried out from the start of the calendar year 2006.