Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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My view is that there is a real debate to be had on the extreme difficulty posed if two children and their mother or father or both must go to two schools at the same time because they could not both be enrolled in the same one. One can understand the very practical case for having two siblings attend the same school to make transport relatively easy and in order that parents do not have to endure the extreme trial of having to bring children to two schools at the same time of the morning which might be physically impossible in some cases, but that is totally different from retaining a 25% quota within a school for pupils whose parents or grandparents happened to go to it. There is no practical, logistical imperative in that regard. The measure is about maintaining some intergenerational family clique within a school. I imagine the practice is restricted almost entirely to fairly elite private schools.