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- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They welcome them.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is long gone.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Students opt out all the time.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that primary education?
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabhaim buÃochas leis an Seanadóir d'Arcy as a chuid ama a roinnt liom. I welcome the Minister to the House. I understand life has changed significantly in schools since the mid-1990s, so in many ways the report is a little behind the action in terms of patronage. Schools have had to accommodate children from multiple faiths and countries for at least 15 years now. In preparation for...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The big concern of those to whom I spoke is that those who shout loudest will get what they want and that the views of the silent majority, who are happy with current patronage, will be ignored. I want the Minister to discuss the process we will go through, especially with the 50 communities around the country that have been identified as sites where the Catholic Church will hand over...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Excuse me. The parish is the unit of belonging throughout the country. If these schools are amalgamated against their wishes out of necessity, is there a danger they will have a lesser identity? They will no longer have their unique ethos. They will be centralist schools without glue. This is a debate and I put the issues because I want to hear the Minister's response on them. I want to...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Look how well the Senator turned out.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With the permission of all the parents in that area.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It will not work otherwise.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And vice versa.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It happens already.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I regret deeply the action taken by the school manager and former principal of St. Joseph's College in Borrisoleigh, in that he adopted an exclusionary approach in respect of a young pregnant girl. Several times, I had reason to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----work in the school with the principal and students-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sorry, but it has been reported.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I call on the former principal and current school manager to make a full apology to the young woman in question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: My request is made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am getting there.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time that the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, issued guidelines. He has indicated this is his intent. The school in question is a privately managed, non-fee paying school. Regardless of the status or owner-management of a school, the guidelines should exclude no one, particularly a young pregnant girl who wants to complete her education.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The girl is brave.