226 Ms C. Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a secondary school (details supplied) in County Kildare is demanding that parents pay a registration fee in order to secure a school place for their children in the forthcoming year and is withholding items such as book lists until the fee has been paid; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that the same school is charging a fee for students who have elected to undertake a transition year and those without the capacity to pay this sum are not eligible to enrol in transition year; if such school policies are standard throughout schools funded by her Department; if, there are any instances where parents would be entitled to exemption from such fees; her views on the fact that such policies could be seen as infringing on the ability of children to access free secondary school education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25380/06]

Summary

226 Ms C. Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a secondary school (details supplied) in County Kildare is demanding that parents pay a registration fee in order to secure a school place for their children in the forthcoming year and is withholding items such as book lists until the fee has been paid; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that the same school is charging a fee for students who have elected to undertake a transition year and those without the capacity to pay this sum are not eligible to enrol in transition year; if such school policies are standard throughout schools funded by her Department; if, there are any instances where parents would be entitled to exemption from such fees; her views on the fact that such policies could be seen as infringing on the ability of children to access free secondary school education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25380/06]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• School Management.

  xml · EN · 29 June 2006

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.