Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I think this gets to the point. Dr. Gormley can say the content as delivered is the same but then he says different materials and different methods are used, which gives rise to the question of whether what the student is taught in the classroom is any different. It would seem to me that it is likely that it is. It is a Jesuitical distinction between the content and the method of delivery. To give an example, in Coachford College in Cork, I presume there is an ETB co-trustee and it has an RSE policy which says the human body is sacred and that marriage is the natural context in which the self giving love in its entirety is possible in co-operation with God and bringing new human life into the world. That is its policy. How on earth then do the students in that school not receive different content?

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