School boards ‘a law unto themselves who must be scrutinised’

School boards are a law unto themselves with nowhere for parents to have complaints against management properly dealt with, a Fine Gael TD and former primary principal has claimed.

Jim Daly, a Cork South-West TD, said boards of management were the last bastion of society onto which a light needs to be shone, in relation to the small number of cases where things go wrong and parents receive unfavourable decisions.

His comments to the Oireachtas education committee were rejected by the Catholic Primary School Management Association (CPSMA), which said the vast majority of complaints were dealt with satisfactorily by boards of management.