Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Business of Joint Committee
Integrated Education: Discussion

Ms Amanda McNamee:

I will pick up on that point. My sister-in-law is an Irish-medium primary school teacher in Strabane. She set up that school some years ago. What happens in that school is very close to my heart. A lot of brilliant inclusive practice is going on, as has been mentioned. The edge of where we take integrated education, as Ms Marshall stated earlier, lies across all different strands. It sounds as if Senator Ó Donnghaile had a very inclusive experience, which would not have been too far away from making that move into being an integrated school. That would have been the case if there had been children of other faiths and backgrounds attending the school. I am sure there were children from different ethnicities and cultures but perhaps not from the other main denominational traditions in Northern Ireland.

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