Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for accompanying regulations to the Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill 2015. [15475/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I recently published the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill.

The Bill is on the Government's legislative programme for enactment in this session.

The Bill will 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.

The Bill will clarify the power of the Minister to make regulations and sets out clearly matters relating to enrolment that regulations may address.

A draft set of regulations were published with the General Scheme of the Bill in September 2013.

Following enactment, the associated regulations will be updated and published in draft form for further consultation with the relevant education stakeholders.