Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the education (admission to schools) Bill 2014. [38762/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the Government gave approval in March of this year for drafting the Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill 2014. The General Scheme has since been referred to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government for drafting. Drafting of the Bill is currently underway.

The objective of the Admissions to School Bill is to provide an over-arching framework to ensure that how schools decide on who is enrolled and who is refused a place in schools is more structured, fair and transparent.

A key objective in designing the framework is to create greater confidence for parents that the admission criteria laid down by schools are legitimate, reasonable and fair.