Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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It was ruled out. It precisely addresses the issue. Let us be honest. If we are all concerned about the baptism barrier, let us talk about how it operates. It operates in the context of catchments. What we are trying to do is provide a balance which provides, as the Constitution requires, for the ethos of the school but which does not mean that children who are not of that ethos in the area can have no access to that school because children in a wider area can jump over them in the queue. That is what the baptism barrier is.