Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

Is the Tánaiste aware today is a day of action by the Educate Together body. The body wrote to the Department of Education and Science six months ago asking the Minister to introduce legislation to register Educate Together as a patron for second level schools so that it can establish such schools. Deputy Quinn raised the matter of an existing school in north Dublin which has no patron and he wants a Bill introduced in that regard. What is the situation in the Department with regard to registering Educate Together as a patron for the provision of second level education?

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