Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion

10:15 am

Mr. Nigel Frith:

I would need to talk to Ms Noreen Campbell in some detail about what she has in her mind on that. She has not gone into detail in the report.

The basic principle behind it is that it needs to be led by someone and composed of a group of people who are prepared to rise above the tribal politics that presides in Northern Ireland. The power-sharing Executive is, on the one hand, a brilliant step forward from where we were before, but, as we can see even in the current wrangles and difficulties it is facing, it has flaws built into it. When there are sectors representing their own interests, there is no agreement or synergy. We are looking for something that is beyond this. I apologise because I cannot comment further on the proposals for the mechanics of this.

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