Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to interrupt. I am not saying there is not work done. I am talking about whether we are hitting the targets. Somebody has to buy into these projects. The Catholic Church has to agree to it. The Catholic Church has to be paid. Another question is whether we have the data. One of the issues is that schools of a particular patronage are not asking parents who send children to those schools what background belief system they come from. I do not, therefore, feel the data is there and I am looking for opportunities through legislation to ensure we get better data on the children in already existing schools. Using this model of there being four Catholic schools does not seem very analytical. We have an outline from Ms Cusack about how specific we are around demographic need, but not when it comes to belief systems and whether schools exist for people from a variety of backgrounds.