Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I propose to meet the 14 stakeholders who are the educational partners, that is, various patron bodies and others, such as the unions, to give a formal response to the patronage report. This meeting will take place in four or five weeks' time, as the Department is still working on its response. I will then invite them to consider how we might examine the divestment process in such identified areas.

I refer to those who are fearful of the process. I understand that Senator Mullen used the phrase "pandering excessively to extremes". His choice of language sometimes is so mildly delivered that when it is read aloud in his absence, it has an extremity that is not conveyed when he articulated it.