Do you have to disclose whether you’ve had vaccine?

What is the school's stance on other vaccines that your daughter has taken? Without in depth knowledge on the subject I imagine you've to get MMR and the likes and they are normally done through school.

It doesn't look like it will be an issue (unless there's legislation change). There might be cases where close contacts occur and those vaccinated don't have to isolate themselves, but I'd imagine it will be a voluntary disclosure (i.e. assume unvaccinated and they need to isolate unless they have a vaccination certificate saying otherwise).

I believe college campus are vaccinated only? With remote learning the option if you're not vaccinated.

Listening to gov statements on the radio over the past two days - college campus will not be 'vaccinated only' and will be operating as normally as possible with physical attendance, depending on individual college physical building constraints with regard to observing public health guidelines. There may however be restricted access to canteen and bar facilities as per current hospitality sector requirements to show proof of vaccination or recent negative test. Basically, they are going to give it a go and see what happens.

Short answer to the OP ... at the moment, there are no changes planned to the operation of secondary schools - no attendance requirement to have proof of vaccination.

Just on this point that the "company can request the information as is their right", that may not actually be true. There are a lot of issues regarding GDPR / data processing meaning that companies should not be holding or processing personal medical info for staff.

The Data Protection Commission even says "employees should not be asked to consent to the processing of vaccine data as this consent is not likely to be freely given." - https://www.dataprotection.ie/sites/default/files/uploads/2021-06/Processing%20COVID-19%20Vaccination%20Data%20in%20the%20context%20of%20Employment_0.pdf

Schools can ask, but she is not obliged to provide them with this information and they cannot prevent her from going to school unless they are prepared to make alternative arrangements for her which do not disadvantage her compared to another student.

Schools probably will start asking for the purposes of assessing overall risk and perhaps in relation to contact tracing, but schools can't refuse to educate children based on their vaccination status.

Booo

I don't really understand this logic. She and others who are unvaccinated who will be the ones at risk. I'd be more concerned if someone attending school wished to get vaccinated but their parents were against it.

Do you disclose medical conditions that could be helpful to the school when asked, eg asthma, allergy to nuts etc ?

Surely you'd disclose, in the event of close contacts, if your child is or isn't vaccinated?

Although I assume everyone is assumed a close contact until they produce a cert to be allowed stay in school, so it will be fairly clear to others who is and who isn't vaccinated, without having to divulge medical information!!!!

Where do you see the requirement coming from seeing as we have no laws for it?

And there still is no law, it's a regulation, likely temporary, based on an SI.

Not really, existing SIs don't need legislating once they don't change. It's easy to do for transport and hospitality, far harder where people have a right to be educated.

It seems to be wait and see but for now vaccination is not a requirement to return to wok. Leo, the relevant minister, doesn't want to get involved in it if he can help it. We're also looking at winter from a current dynamic environment of high vaccination rates and a fairly high disease prevalence. It may be very different in 4 weeks.

What is this, a throwback to US segregationist times? I see a whole pile of legal cases in this approach never mind what the DES would do to a school.

Someone might also believe that it's none of anybody's business. Getting a vaccine does not bring with it a requirement to share it with the world.

Not my experience of small talk, people have moved on from COVID in every form. I really have no idea how many people of my acquaintance have been vaccinated nor would I ask nor expect to be asked.

The vast vast majority of people who are vaccinated don’t have the twisted conspiracy theorist worldview of people who refuse to be vaccinated and can therefore see the value in institutions like schools having that information so they can accommodate everyone and keep them safe more effectively.

Sure, there will be some vaccinated people who want to keep it a secret for some reason, but if someone refuses to say it’s almost certainly because they have decided not to get it and have some weird ideological opposition to it.

And people who haven’t been vaccinated for genuine reasons will almost certainly want to disclose it because they’re the ones being put most at risk by the irresponsible and will want the school to help protect them.

I didn’t go to many to begin with but have happily shown the cert, there’s a law requiring this, it’s not voluntary disclosure, there’s a big difference between that and an employer or school asking for information they’re not legally entitled to ask for, if it’s law then fine, if not then no.