Bishops to start talks on historic handover of building
- Published: 10 November 2009
HISTORIC talks get under way next week on the handing over of some of the Catholic Church's 3,200 primary schools to the State.
Catholic bishops, led by the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin and the Chair of the Bishops' Commission for Education, Bishop Leo O'Reilly, will meet officials of the Department of Education and Science on Thursday.
The Catholic Church is patron of 92pc of primary schools and the process represents the biggest shake-up in Irish education for decades.
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