Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)

Yes. Will the Tánaiste ensure a process is in place whereby that can be monitored and vetted? Where it is found that there is sidelining of particular groups, there should be an obligation on the Tánaiste and her Department to rectify it as a matter of urgency. The danger is that it is always difficult to change any system that has taken root in a school. A suitable accommodation must be made for those children whose parents do not want them to partake in religious instruction.

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