Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister tells me he is unable to give a precise date. I would be more than willing to accept an imprecise date today. Does the Minister envisage that the report will be published within one, two or three months? I would be more than happy were the Minister to give me the date within a month. That would be a fair and happy compromise, because I can understand that things get delayed for a day or two.

My second question to the Minister pertains to a request for a meeting with him made by the chairman of the education committee in Northern Ireland to discuss the vulnerability of small Protestant schools in County Donegal in particular under the rules for small schools introduced by the Minister regarding pupil-teacher ratio.

He refused to meet that significant and senior politician in this country. Why was the Minister unwilling to meet Mr. Mervyn Storey, MLA, to discuss the plight of small schools in County Donegal?

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