Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2002

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Summary

Bill entitled an Act to make further provision for the education of people with disabilities, to provide that, to the greatest extent practicable, people with disabilities shall have the same right to avail of, and benefit from, appropriate education as do their peers who do not have disabilities, to assist children with disabilities to leave school with the skills necessary to participate, to the greatest extent practicable, in an inclusive way in the social and economic activities of society and to live independent and fulfilled lives, to provide for consultation with parents of children with disabilities in relation to the education of those children, to ensure that schools and public bodies involved in the education of people with disabilities act in a co-ordinated way in the interests of those people, for those purposes to establish a body to be known as the National Council for Special Education and to define its functions, to confer certain functions on health boards in relation to the education of people with disabilities, to enable certain decisions made in relation to the education of people with disabilities to be the subject of an appeal to an Appeals Board and to provide for related matters.

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Timeline

1. 22 March 2002

   Published

2. 22 March 2002

   First Stage

   Source: Seanad Éireann

3. 26 March 2002

   Second Stage

   Source: Seanad Éireann

4. 27 March 2002

   Committee stage

   Source: Seanad Éireann

5. 4 April 2002

   Report stage

   Source: Seanad Éireann

6. 25 April 2002

   Bill Lapsed

   Source: Dáil Éireann

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Documents

4 official files

• As amended in Committee [Seanad Éireann]

  pdf · EN · 27 March 2003

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• Explanatory Memorandum

  pdf · EN · 4 April 2002

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• As Initiated

  pdf · EN · 4 April 2002

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• As passed by Seanad Éireann

  pdf · EN · 4 April 2002

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Sponsors

• Minister for Education and Science · Minister for Education and Science

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