Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

This is a central point. As someone from Galway who represents the west in the Seanad, I want to see livelihoods and business protected.

I support the call for a broad debate on education and how schools are managed. Senator O'Toole referred to the initiation of a new black school, so to speak. This is a frightening way to describe it but that is exactly what has happened. Generally, schools reflect the type of society in which we live. We are now faced with multiculturalism and immigration and it is time we looked at how our schools set that example. I support the speakers who called for a debate in that regard.