Joe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I welcome all our guests. I agree fundamentally with them on the view put forward by my colleague, Deputy Brendan Smith, in that I believe the key to reconciliation, community building, reconstruction and so on lies in integrated education. I know we are a distance from it and that there are many institutional blocks, but it behoves all of us in this room to work towards integrated education because therein lies the key to a solution. Deputy Smith outlined it well. I agree with Mr. Brady's point about sport being a medium. All of that is necessary as well and will happen by virtue of integrated education. As Ms Charmain Jones said, we have it at primary and preschool level but it must be got into the 11 plus area. That is the secret. If we were to devote a full meeting to how we could in any way contribute to integrated education in Northern Ireland it would be an enormous achievement.