John Bruton
Ceist:266 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education the reason vocational education committees are not currently co-operating in signing deeds of trust for community schools.
Written Answers. - Deeds of Trust for Community Schools.
In January 1985 the Irish Vocational Education Association adopted the following resolution:—
That the IVEA reaffirms its commitment to local democratic education structures and hereby recommends to all Committees that they do not participate in the establishment of any school other than VEC schools or in the management of existing schools where Deeds of Trust have not been signed pending the satisfactory resolution of decentralised local administrative structures for education in accordance with the agreed programme for government.
Arising from this policy decision a number of VECs have refused to complete the signing of deeds of trust already drafted and other VECs have indicated their intention not to co-operate in the signing of further deeds of trust.