200 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in relation to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 2 October 2007, and in particular in relation to her statements to the effect that the differentiation between fee-paying and non fee-paying secondary schools arises essentially from the arrangements put in place when free second level education was introduced and those arrangements took account specifically of the position of minority religions with dispersed membership, through the creation of the Protestant block grant, she is satisfied that the maintenance of the Protestant block grant, under the provisions of section 12 of the Education Act 1998 is compatible with the requirements of Article 44.2.4° of the Constitution to the effect that legislation providing State aid for schools shall not discriminate between schools under the management of different religious denominations; the arrangements that exist for the funding of Protestant schools, to the extent that they differ from arrangements for Roman Catholic schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24545/07]

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200 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in relation to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 2 October 2007, and in particular in relation to her statements to the effect that the differentiation between fee-paying and non fee-paying secondary schools arises essentially from the arrangements put in place when free second level education was introduced and those arrangements took account specifically of the position of minority religions with dispersed membership, through the creation of the Protestant block grant, she is satisfied that the maintenance of the Protestant block grant, under the provisions of section 12 of the Education Act 1998 is compatible with the requirements of Article 44.2.4° of the Constitution to the effect that legislation providing State aid for schools shall not discriminate between schools under the management of different religious denominations; the arrangements that exist for the funding of Protestant schools, to the extent that they differ from arrangements for Roman Catholic schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24545/07]

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1. 18 October 2007

   School Funding.

   200 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in relation to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 2 October 2007, and in particular in relation to her statements to the effect that the differentiation between fee-paying and non fee-paying secondary schools arises essentially from the arrangements put in place when free second level education was introduced and those arrangements took account specifically of the position of minority religions with dispersed membership, through the creation of the Protestant block grant, she is satisfied that the maintenance of the Protestant block grant, under the provisions of section 12 of the Education Act 1998 is compatible with the requirements of Article 44.2.4° of the Constitution to the effect that legislation providing State aid for schools shall not discriminate between schools under the management of different religious denominations; the arrangements that exist for the funding of Protestant schools, to the extent that they differ from arrangements for Roman Catholic schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24545/07]

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