Jim D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I was in Drumatee, a townland in south Armagh, not long ago and a family of high achievers told me that Mary got into grammar school but that Anne was not good enough for that school and she went to St. Paul's in Camlough. It was awful stuff.

I spoke about music earlier. Two of my three children have degrees in music and play with the Cross Border Orchestra, which is an integrated project. Music breaks down barriers also. Having an extra criteria to allow a child get into a grammar school through playing a musical instrument favours the middle class because it is middle-class children in primary school who get the extra tuition in music. That is the point.

In 50 years from now people will say: "Imagine there was a time when one chose one's school on the basis of one's religion."