Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is good to hear a former teacher express the observations he did because I would think he would be in a minority in the Houses of the Oireachtas in terms of his view. Certainly, in my parliamentary party, I hear Trojan defence of the Catholic Church's operation within education and its right of place, etc. I never seek to be in any way disrespectful to them, and certainly I acknowledge all of their achievements, but education in a modern Ireland is not what they should be doing. It is what the State should be doing. We fund it but we do not control it.