School Patronage
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-23
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Richard Bruton (FG), Dublin Bay North

The question I am going to ask will be familiar to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. It relates to the pilot process for achieving a transfer of patronage. We had an example in our constituency recently and it went badly wrong, essentially because of a lack of anticipation of how a successful process could work.
It needs to be changed if we are to have success. In a constituency like mine, less than 15% of schools are non-denominational and they are predominantly denominational. That needs to change and we need to have a process that can do this smoothly.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-23