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Enacted Seanad
No. 21 of 1999

Education (Welfare) Bill 1999

Public bill · Government · Presented

Creates a National Educational Welfare Board to ensure children receive a minimum education, whether in school or at home. It would require home education to be registered, strengthen school attendance monitoring and support, allow notices and penalties for persistent non-attendance, protect education after expulsion, and regulate young people’s employment alongside education.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the entitlement of every child in the State to a certain minimum education, and, for that purpose, to provide for the registration of children receiving education in places other than recognised schools, the compulsory attendance of certain children at recognised schools, the establishment of a body, to be known as the National Educational Welfare Board or, in the Irish language, an Bord Náisiúnta Leasa Oideachais, the coordination of its activities and those of certain other persons in so far as they relate to matters connected with school attendance, the identification of the causes of non-attendance on the part of certain students and the adoption of measures for its prevention, to repeal the School Attendance Acts, 1926 to 1967, to permit the supply of data relating to a person's educational history to certain persons, to provide for the amendment of the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996, and to provide for matters connected therewith

Last updated 20 November 2019

Sponsor
  • Minister for Education and Science Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil ] : Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Report Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Order for Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Report Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [Seanad]: Committee Stage.
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed). - Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed). SECTION 9.
    Seanad
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed). SECTION 17.
    Seanad
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999: Order for Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Education (Welfare) Bill, 1999: Second Stage.
    Seanad

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