Ivana Bacik (Independent)

Yes and the gaelscoileanna make up approximately 50 more. About 4% of our national school system is either multidenominational under Educate Together or under the patronage of the gaelscoileanna movement. These are the two biggest growing movements of parents. In my group in the Portobello area in Dublin we have more than 600 parents of nearly 350 pupils pre-enrolled and we are hopeful that we will see divestment take place in the near future because we have a real and pressing need.

In that context I very much welcome this report. It has tried to address the need for greater inclusion and greater diversity in the school population and it has done it in a measured way.