Minister must reverse cuts to Protestant schools now [Labour.ie]
- Published: 21 October 2009
I fully support the criticisms made by Dr. John Neil, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, that Batt O'Keeffe's cuts to Protestant schools are an attack on a minority community. These cutbacks will have a terrible impact on rural boarding schools in particular, which cater for the dispersed Protestant community.
Batt O'Keeffe has claimed that the ancillary funding for Protestant schools is unconstitutional but this was never claimed to be the case over the last forty years. If the Minister has such legal advice he should publish it so that it can be studied openly and objectively.
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