Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Integrated Education Fund

Ms Tina Merron:

I would be less positive than Mr. Osborne. The integrated movement has had a difficult time in encouraging the churches, local priests and local ministers to come into integrated schools. They have worked hard to do that. In some areas they have a very good relationship but in other areas it is still difficult. The churches have not always been very forthcoming or helpful. For some of the schools that wish to transform, and there have been a couple of Catholic schools as well recently that wish to transform, the churches have not been very supportive of that either. I would like to see them more involved and more positive towards integrated education but currently I do not see a lot of evidence for that.

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