South Dublin County Council · January 2025 County Council Meeting · 13 January 2025
A vote on a motion calling on the Chief Executive to write to the Minister for Children to remove the parts of the Social, Personal and Health Education curriculum for 12 to 15 year olds that deal with sex, pornography and gender identity, which the motion calls explicit and inappropriate.
Summary written by AI from the minutes. The motion as recorded follows.
That this council calls on the Chief Executive to write to the Minister for Children, to remove the portions of the Social, Personal and Health Education curriculum dealing with sex, pornography and gender identity in horrendously explicit and wholly inappropriate terms for 12–15-year-old children.
Proposed by L. de Courcy; seconded by R. McMahon.
The minutes record: As a result of the Roll Call Vote the motion FELL.
| Party | Tá | Níl | Staon | Didn't vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Fine Gael | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| Fianna Fáil | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Sinn Féin | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| People Before Profit-Solidarity | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Labour Party | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Social Democrats | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Independent Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Irish Freedom Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tá, Níl and Staon are the minutes’ for, against and abstained. “Didn’t vote” covers councillors on the council that day whom the minutes don’t list under any option, for any reason. Parties are as of the meeting day.