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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-03-26/8/
26 Mar 2019 - Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Victor Boyhan I move amendment No. 8: In page 6, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following...personnel, financial and time resources in order to implement the provisions of the Education (Student and Parent...Charter) Act 2019,”.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-03-26/8/
26 Mar 2019 - Deputy Anne Rabbitte I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the...Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 to make provision for an entitlement to bereavement leave to an employee...who is a bereaved parent of a child who has died and to provide for related matters....There is no statutory entitlement to bereavement leave in legislation....Often employers provide bereavement leave on the basis of force majeure, but it is often limited.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh Much consideration has gone into this particular amendment, as it has gone into all...the amendments....The Bill currently requires the Minister, when preparing the charter guidelines, to have regard to the...This amendment would ensure this provision in the Bill also explicitly makes references to teachers....teachers, and parents and students.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-02/17/
2 Oct 2019 - Oideachais (Cairt Mac Léinn agus Tuismitheoirí) 2019, a thabhairt go dtí an Dara Céim....It will do so by amending the Education Act 1998....I will move now to the other sections of the Bill....Section 9 is a technical amendment and provides for the amendment of section 42 of the Teaching Council...The Bill is important legislation to improve radically the experiences of students and parents in their
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh In response to amendment No. 14, the Bill currently provides for an amendment of...The Senator's proposal amends this provision in the Bill and attempts to restrict a student council,...in co-operation with the board, parents and teachers, from promoting the involvement of students in the...The Bill is not altering the current legislative provision on student councils, working in co-operation...with boards, parents and teachers, to promote the involvement of students in the affairs of the school
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-02/17/
2 Oct 2019 - On the whole, Sinn Féin supports the Bill....Sinn Féin will table an amendment in this regard in the hope of standardising the regulation and collation...we will seek to amend this aspect of the Bill....The Bill runs a risk also of making schools feel excluded....That said, Sinn Féin supports the Bill in principle and will approach amendments in good faith and with
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh I thank the Senator for his amendment....or frivolous to notify the student, parent or parents as to why the school has deemed the grievance...Section 8 of the Bill replaces the existing section 28 of the Education Act 1998 and provides for new...Therefore, I consider that the Bill already provides for schools to provide reasons where they decide...I will also consider making an explicit reference to the matter in the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Minister for Education and Skills (Deputy Joe McHugh) I thank the Senator for moving this amendment...and when they arise to an approach that aims to improve the day-to-day experience students and their parents...In doing so, it is envisaged that relationships between schools, students and parents will be strengthened...Taking on board the spirit of the amendment, I reassure Senator Boyhan and the other Members that the...I will not be in a position to accept the amendment, as proposed.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Paul Gavan I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following...I am delighted the Minister has just made the comment that the purpose of this Bill is to ensure that...key information is given to parents....In that spirit, I hope he will be supporting this amendment, which seeks to regulate and collate data...parents' inability to pay.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh I thank the Senator for the amendment which would require the Minister, when preparing...ensure there will be better and more meaningful engagement between a school and its students and their parents...This will benefit the students and parents concerned, as well as the teachers, principal and management...This particular amendment would fundamentally undermine the overall approach of this Bill, which is to...For the reasons I have set out, I cannot accept the amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - that the provision was referring to mutual respect and communication between teachers, students and parents...teachers or other staff of the school, on the one hand and students or their parents on the other hand...day-to-day communications in a school are between teachers or other school staff and students or their parents..., and I am happy to make explicit reference to this in the Bill....subsection (d), which concerns confidentiality in communications between schools and students and their parents
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - because my insistence on pushing this amendment is linked with that amendment....There is support for the amendment....I do not want to insert a provision into the Bill that will have a negative effect in that regard....However, I do not wish the Bill to leave this House without the acceptance of either amendment No. 10...or amendment No. 31.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - I know it will include the National Parents Council, for example....If she wants to bring in a few parents or teachers who have been involved in this area in the past, I...I will not repeat the reasons I am not accepting these two amendments....this Bill....The voices of parents and students will have to be at the heart of that.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh This amendment arises from the amendment proposed by Senator Gavan on Committee Stage...During the debate I advised the Senator I was happy that the Bill provided for this already but I would...consider making an explicit provision in the Bill....to make an explicit provision in the Bill that requires the grievance procedures to provide that where...grievance on the basis of it being vexatious or frivolous, it must give the reasons to the student or parent
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - I accept that the Bill does not currently make it an explicit requirement that the grievance procedures...would require that schools inform students or parents of their right to make a complaint to the Office...preferable and more practicable to ensure that the grievance procedures make clear that students and parents...Therefore, I cannot accept the amendment in its current form....I agree with the intention of the Senator in respect of her amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - The amendment proposes an amendment to the new section 28 of the Education Act 1998, which relates to...the procedures available to students and parents to resolve grievances with schools....I want to ensure that the procedures for resolving grievances within schools and for students and parents...This Bill sets out a new collaborate to school grievances, which I welcome....I hope the Minister will accept my amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-02/17/
2 Oct 2019 - called the Education (Amendment) Bill 2015, which sought to establish an office of ombudsman for education...Head 7 of the draft scheme proposed an amendment to the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002, which would...I need a proper explanation and if that is not forthcoming, I will table an amendment on Committee Stage...Students and parents need the option of recourse....We are in agreement with Sinn Féin in terms of amendments on that area too.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Lynn Ruane I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, after line 42, to insert the following: “or...I am tabling amendments Nos. 10 and 13 on foot of comments I made on Second Stage on an envisioned expansion...for inclusion in the Bill to reflect the important provision that was dropped....gives the office of the ombudsman real teeth in how it deals with and investigates schools, while still leaving...I hope the Minister can accept the amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh I want to highlight a number of points about these amendments....It seeks to work in co-operation with schools and the parent or student in question to encourage the...These and other measures in the Bill will help to greatly improve the culture in schools and the level...They will bring clarity to what is required of schools, students and parents in that regard....interacts with the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-02-24/14/
24 Feb 2021 - Organisation of Working Time (Workers Rights and Bogus Self-Employment) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Leave
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-02/16/
2 Oct 2019 - Bill entitled an Act to require the boards of management of schools to prepare, publish and implement...charters for students and parents; to provide for the Minister for Education and Skills to make guidelines...and Skills to a board of management and for the publication of such directions; for those purposes to amend
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh Senator Craughwell raised this matter in a Committee Stage amendment and it is something...When there is communication between students and a school, or parents and a school, that includes the...We are all on the same page regarding the value of teachers, and this amendment is just about including...that in the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - This amendment relates to a new provision inserted in the Bill on Committee Stage....indicated to the House that I would examine it in more detail, and would, if necessary, bring forward an amendment...The provision is, therefore, unclear and is not consistent with the overall approach in the Bill, which...The inclusion in the Bill of another requirement outside of, and entirely separate from, the charter...I believe that the approach that I have taken in the Bill in this regard is clear, fair and balanced
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - As the Senator said, this is about information for parents, whether it is €2 that has been collected...for a school bus to go to a swimming pool, or a golf classic that has been organised by the local parents...The difficulty I have with the amendment is an issue which was highlighted to me in my first week in...bit of fundraising, but where they are raising money, it is important that the school community and parents...Unfortunately, I am not in a position to accept this amendment but I appreciate that at the heart of
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-09/17/
9 Oct 2019 - and Benefit Bill 2019....in view of our commitment to introduce the leave and benefit with effect from 1 November 2019....or born on or after 1 November 2019....for unpaid parental leave....1998 to 2019 be paid.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh The Bill explicitly emphasises the need for early resolution....In that regard, a central aim of this Bill is to ensure concerns of students or their parents are resolved...Accordingly, the Bill broadly envisages a two-stage approach....The group of amendments proposed by the Senator would conflate these separate concepts and would not...work in the context of the various other provisions in the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - For me, this amendment was to prevent such a thing....We also never had an Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill....I feel there is room to begin to have more equality of input between students, parents and boards....now and Report Stage, would the Minister consider thinking about how we could put measures into the Bill...Are there other less blunt ways of doing this than through my amendment?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh I am trying to be consistent regarding the motivation behind the student and parent...There are guidelines within the Bill to ensure that schools are obliged to make information on the moneys...That would achieve the goals which the Senator claims are the motivation behind the amendment which was...There will be an obligation under the student and parent charter for schools to publish information on...done in a way that will allay the Senator's fears, I am open to continuing that conversation when the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-14/31/
14 May 2019 - " 'specified Act’ means the Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019;
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - The amendment stated: "......It is an opportunity to give parents transparency....The Minister would have said to me that he had concerns regarding the Bill and asked whether he could...That is what this amendment would do....I will oppose the amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-05-08/18/
8 May 2019 - “ ‘specified Act’ means the Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019;
