O'Keeffe won't reveal legal advice on axing of school grant [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 October 2009
EDUCATION Minister Batt O'Keeffe has refused to reveal details of any legal advice which prompted the axing of grants to Protestant secondary schools.
And, for the first time, he last night claimed the decision to withdraw the grants worth €2.8m was a "Government decision".
A request by the Irish Independent, made under the Freedom of Information Act, for all correspondence relating to the decision was refused by the Department of Education and Science, which cited "legal professional privilege".
The department also refused to release a briefing document on budgetary proposals regarding fee-paying schools, dated September 26 2008, on the grounds that it was part of the "deliberative process".
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