Education Bill 1997
Public bill · Government · Presented
The Education Bill 1997 would create 10 regional education boards to plan and fund primary, post-primary, adult and vocational education, while setting spending limits and requiring public reports. It would place school recognition, management boards, inspections, parents’ associations and student appeals on a statutory footing, with specific duties to support children with disabilities or special educational needs and promote equality, parental choice and Irish-language education. The Minister would retain strong powers over curriculum, funding, standards and intervention where boards or schools failed to perform properly.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make provision in the interests of the common good for the education of every child in the State, including any child with a disability or special educational needs, and to provide generally for primary, post-primary, adult and continuing education and vocational education and training; to ensure that the educational system is accountable to students, their parents and the State for the education provided, respects the diversity of values, beliefs and traditions in Irish society and is conducted in a spirit of partnership between schools, patrons, students, parents, staff and the State; to make provision for the establishment and maintenance of education boards, to provide for the recognition and funding of schools and their management through boards of management, to provide for an inspectorate of schools, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 20 November 2019
- Minister for Education Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Education Bill, 1997: Committee Stage. Select Committee on Social Affairs
- Education Bill, 1997: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Education Bill, 1997: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil
- Education Bill, 1997: Order for Second Stage. Dáil
- Education Bill, 1997: Second Stage. Dáil
- Education Bill, 1997: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil