Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has, following a meeting of the Joint Committee on Education and Science on 9 April 2009, been in contact with a person (details supplied), to discuss his proposals, made on a number of occasions but most recently at an education conference in Kilmainham in 2008, that he, as patron, wished to divest himself and his archdiocese of the patronage of a number of primary schools; if senior officials in his Department charged with the planning of education provision and school buildings have had discussions or meetings with representatives of the archdiocese; if not, if he proposes to initiate such meetings with a view to ensuring an orderly changeover of patrons that causes minimum disruption for all concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19409/09]

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