Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin

2:35 pm

Ms Anne McDonagh:

There are two issues. The committee should be clear. The archdiocese is in no way blaming the De La Salle Brothers or suggesting that the order is responsible for this reorganisation. The reorganisation had to take place because of the falling numbers. As I stated earlier, the De La Salle school was applying for a change of status to try to get numbers in several years ago, because it was losing numbers.