Written answers
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Department of Education and Science
International Agreements
5:00 pm
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education will be ratified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19378/07]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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"The UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education" was agreed in 1960. Ireland was not a member of UNESCO at that time. There are no immediate plans for Ireland to ratify the Convention. Ireland is committed in general to the principles of equality of educational opportunity contained in the Convention. For example, the Equal Status Act, 2000 prohibits, under section 7, an educational institution from discriminating in relation to, among other things, admission to an establishment or access to any course in that establishment."
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