Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidelines will be issued by her Department to education and training boards on the appointment of representatives to school boards of management; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6117/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Boards of management of schools and other centres of education operated by Education and Training Boards (ETBs) are subcommittees of an ETB.

ETBs have been instructed to establish new boards of management of schools and centres of education not later than the 1st April 2015. The ETBs have also been advised that the composition of boards of management shall be determined in the same fashion as was the case heretofore.

I have also advised ETBs that pursuant to Sections 44(11) and 44(12)(c) of the Education and Training Boards Act 2013, boards of management of schools and other centres of education established by an education and training board under section 44 may consist exclusively of members who are not members of the education and training board by which they were established.

I have no plans to issue any further guidance to ETBs concerning the appointments to boards of management.