District Justice Eileen Kennedy is appointed as chair of a committee to carry out a survey of the reformatory industrial schools.
On 1 October 1967 District Justice Eileen Kennedy was appointed to the Children's Court in Dublin. Some days later she is appointed by Minister for Education Donogh O'Malley to be the chair an eleven member committee tasked with carrying out a survey of reformatory and industrial schools.
The committee will make enquiries into the reformatory and industrial schools system and make a report and recommendations to the Minister for Education.
Eileen Kennedy welcomes the establishment of the committee as she feels these schools are in need of improvement. She is happy with the composition of the committee,
The membership is very comprehensive.
Eileen Kennedy does not currently understand how the reformatory and industrial schools system operates. But when the committee has completed its work she thinks,
We will be able to come up with something very practical.
Eileen Kennedy suspects an area where most needs to be done is education,
As yet I don't know what the system of education in the reformatories and industrial schools are.
She expects the survey will provide her with this information. She also hopes it will,
Perhaps give the children a more practical education and say a full primary school education particularly for the industrial schools.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 5 October 1967.
