Tomás MacGiolla
Question:213 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Education if she will outline the way in which school attendance committees are comprised; and the interests which are represented on such bodies.
Written Answers. - School Attendance Committees.
As is specified under section 10 of the School Attendance Act, 1926 each school attendance committee consists of ten members.
Section 10.5 of the Act states: "Of the members of a school attendance committee appointed under this section, each one of five members shall, so far as such persons are available, be either a manager or a patron of a national school in the school attendance area, and one other member shall be a teacher in a national or other suitable school in the school attendance area."
Five members of every school attendance committee are appointed by the Minister for Education and at least one of these members should be a teacher in a national school or other suitable school in the school attendance area.
Five members are appointed by the council of the county borough or urban district in which the school attendance area is situated. At least one of these should be a manager or patron of a national school or other suitable school in the school attendance area.