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Mr Pat Sheehan: Assembly records
All of Mr Pat Sheehan’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
The Minister will be aware that the Audit Office previously reported that, despite hundreds of millions being spent on SEN, neither his Department nor the EA could demonstrate value for money. What assurances has the Minister given his Executive colleagues that, this time, it will be different and that any expenditure…
You have sort of made the point that I was going to make: there are schools where girls are allowed to wear trousers, but there are schools where they are not. The issue here is whether girls should have the right to wear trousers or not, not whether it is at the whim of some principal of the school or the board of…
That may well turn out to be the case, but I do not know why the Member is so confident that it will be. If the amendments from the Committee had been selected, there would have been absolute clarity for that family and that young girl. By the way, that is the same young girl who used to take off her overcoat 100…
First, I want to touch on an issue that the Education Minister raised during his contribution. He said that the Assembly had passed flawed legislation. That may well be true, but it is also true of every other legislature in the world. Nothing will always be perfect. We will do our best to make sure that it is.…
You mentioned the guidelines, and the Minister was clear today that the guidelines follow the legislation. That is contrary to what we were told in Committee; in fact, officials told us in a private meeting with the party that we would be reassured, when we saw the guidelines, that there would be no need for…
I know that you are new to the Committee, Jon, but the Committee took evidence from one young girl in particular who attends a well-known school in Belfast, and her family is quite economically challenged. They cannot afford the school overcoat, so when she is 100 metres from the school, she takes her own overcoat off…
I would like to be able to get up and say that I welcome the Bill as far as it goes. Unfortunately, it does not go very far at all, and that is the difficulty with it. We on the Committee had a very productive Committee Stage. The Committee heard evidence from many witnesses, including from schools, teachers, parents,…
To ask the Minister of Education to outline (i) the staffing composition of a Local Impact Team; (ii) the training or qualification required to work as part of a Local Impact Team; and (iii) the terms and conditions of employment for workers employed as part of a Local Impact Team.
Le 23 mhí anuas, tá muid ag amharc ar chinedhíothú agus é á chraoladh beo ag a íospartaigh féin. Chonaic gach duine againn sa Seomra na híomhánna uafásacha de choirp chráite, mhaslaithe, coirp páistí agus leanaí nuabheirthe san áireamh, chonaic muid sin ar an teilifís s’againn nó ar na meáin shóisialta ag teacht ó…
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as a ráiteas. In his statement, the Minister said that we will benchmark against some of the highest-performing education systems elsewhere. If we benchmark against the education system in the South of the island, the evidence shows that we lag miles behind it. Far more young people in…
The point that I was making was that there has not been real accountability of the funding that has been given to special needs, thus far. If the Minister can demonstrate value for money with the funding that he is putting into it, all of us would be in a different position when it comes to going to the Finance…
This summer, we have seen yet again a crisis in special educational needs placements, with hundreds of children and their families facing an anxious and agonising wait for support and certainty. While, on paper, the number of those awaiting placements has been reduced significantly, that does not tell the whole story.…
End the Forced Starvation in Gaza That this Assembly notes with deep concern the declaration of famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) with half a million people, a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza, suffering from famine; further notes the IPC's assessment that this situation is…
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will engage with the General Teaching Council and instruct them to remove the barrier of the requirement for newly-qualified teachers in the Republic of Ireland to complete one years' work experience in the north before being able to work here.