Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

While the issue the Deputy raises clearly concerns a person's freedom of conscience, the matter would have to be examined. I suspect in the case cited that it would be impossible for a college to force someone to take a subject if a genuine issue of conscience arose. That is my instinctive view of how the Supreme Court would treat a case of this nature, although I cannot be definitive on the matter. If the Deputy provides me with details of the case, I will notify them to the Attorney General for a response.

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