Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 817: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide details of all her Departments inspections of a school (details supplied) over the past five years; her views on making available all educational reports on a person (details supplied) to the legal representatives of that person. [11104/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that an inspection of the school to which the Deputy refers was conducted in the school year 2001-02 as part of the regular programme of school inspections conducted during that year. As the Deputy may be aware, I signed the Education Act 1998 (Publication of Inspection Reports on Schools and Centres for Education) Regulations 2006 and placed these regulations before the Oireachtas in February 2006. The document, Publication of School Inspection Reports: Guidelines, published on 30 January 2006, is available on my Department's website at www.education.ie. The guidelines state that publication procedures will apply to all inspections commenced on or after 6 February 2006.

The regulations do not allow for publication of reports of any inspections conducted prior to 6 February 2006. The inspection reports when finalised will be placed on my Department's website.

I also wish to advise the Deputy that with regard to the provision of educational reports for a particular child, it is suggested that these matters are raised directly with the school authorities concerned.