Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will enter into talks with an organisation (details supplied), some of whose members, as teaching orders, are the legal owners of many of the primary schools here, with a view to seeking to have their legal ownership of those properties transferred to his Department while ensuring that they continue to operate as schools under their existing patron in view of the reality that the teaching orders' contributions to the costs of the Residential Institutions Redress Board amounts to approximately 11% of the €1.1 billion cost, as against the 50:50 initially sought by the Department of Finance, or even the amount negotiated by the Minister for Education and Science at the time, when the overall estimated cost was much lower than what has emerged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8136/09]

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