Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

The Minister has been going over this for the last two years and the audit has been getting headlines for the last two years at the TUI conference. We have asked the Minister to publish it. If she chooses not to do so, will she at the very least publish the details of the geographic pockets, as she called them, in which this form of selection is taking place? She said nearly 2,000 schools were included in the audit. How many were primary and how many were post-primary schools? The Minister also stated that she had come across examples of specific schools with selective enrolment policies. That is a dangerous thing to say because it raises the question of what sanctions she will impose on these schools. She is the person responsible to the House for the public funds that go to these schools, yet she admitted in public that she has come across schools with selective admission policies. What sanctions will she take against them?

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