Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 September 2014
1396. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to remove the prescriptive enrolment policies used by secondary schools and replace them with a standardised enrolment policy to be implemented by all public secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34084/14]
View answerThe Deputy may be aware that Government gave approval in March of this year for drafting the Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill 2014 and drafting 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.
