Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Nick Mathison on .
- MLA
- Mr Nick Mathison
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 1 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5582061
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I thank the Member for giving way. It is clear that there are concerns about everything that you have set out on the second part of clause 3 on sanctions for teachers. However, you have been around this place long enough to know that there is every opportunity in the stages that follow this one to get rid of that clause in its entirety if you do not like it. When it comes to the other issues that you have raised with clause 3 — that its powers are too broad and unclear — surely the proper place to find out what those powers really represent and deliver is at Committee Stage? I am just not clear on the SDLP position that we have to throw everything out.
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