Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hope I will get as comprehensive a reply as the one to the previous matter. My experience with the Department of Education and Skills, however, is that I will not. Premises used by a post-primary school on an interim basis are about to become vacant. Those premises are being made available to a primary school whose facilities are in very poor condition. To my dismay, the board of management advised me that, after the initial offer was made, it was made conditional on St. Joseph's CBS changing its status from an all-boys school to a co-educational school. I wish to know if that is the case. If so, it represents interference by the Department of Education and Skills with the patrons of that school. It is a decision that should have been made by the board of management without coercion and without undue interference by the Department.