Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an expulsion can be expunged from a person's school record. [3747/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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Under Section 23 of the Education Welfare Act, 2000 the board of management of a school is required to prepare a Code of Behaviour in accordance with the Tusla (formerly the NEWB) 'Developing a Code of Behaviour: Guidelines for Schools'. The Code of Behaviour must specify the procedures to be followed before a student may be expelled from school. Any decisions in relation to expulsion are a matter for the board of management of a school at local level.

An appeal may be made against a decision of a board of management to expel a student from school under Section 29 of the Education Act, 1998. Appeals are made to my Department and further information on the current Section 29 Appeals process is available on my Department's website at the following linkwww.education.ie/en/Parents/Services/Appeal-against-Permanent-Exclusion-Suspension-or-Refusal-to-Enrol/

The recently enacted Education (Admission to Schools Act) 2018 provides for the amending of the current Section 29 of the Education Act, 1998 by the substitution of a new Section 29. When commenced, the amended Section 29 provisions will provide that where an independent Section 29 Appeals Committee allows an appeal relating to expulsion, the appeals committee shall direct the board of management to readmit the student and remove the expulsion from the record of the student.