Schools Amalgamation
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-08
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Thomas Gould (SF), Cork North-Central

Did the Minister sign off on this? This process was flawed. She is the Minister for Education. The Department of Education gave her this to sign off and I believe that was completely wrong. At the end of the day she has a responsibility as Minister to ensure that this was done properly. It was not done properly. I spoke to the parents, teachers and particularly the students. Have the patrons excluded all of them from the process? If the patrons want out of the school let us get new patrons. This campaign is only beginning. The north side is sick of losing schools, hospitals and everything else and the people will stand up and fight this.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-08