Seanad debates

Thursday, 20 March 2003

Adjournment Matter. - Conservatory of Music and Drama.

 

While I do not mean to be divisive, part of the origins of the problems lies with the Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992, under which the Conservatory of Music and Drama was brought under the wing of the Dublin Institute of Technology which, I know, has the ultimate intention of being recognised as a university. Only a small element of the work undertaken by the Conservatory of Music and Drama is relevant to the Dublin Institute of Technology as far as it is concerned. It is interested in third level education; it is not really interested in the ethos of this school – the provision of education in music to the widest possible variety of children. It would be a dreadful mistake if we were to allow elitism and exclusion to enter this area that is so enriching to the lives of young people who do not all have to be Yehudi Menuhin, their lives can be enormously enriched by learning how to play instruments and appreciate music.

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