201 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether a constitutional requirement, in Article 44.2.4° of the Constitution, to the effect that legislation providing State aid for schools shall not be such as to affect prejudicially the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money without attending religious instruction at that school, is compatible with admission policies in schools receiving public moneys that admit persons of certain religious denominations in preference to others or refuse to admit as a student a person who is not of that denomination on the grounds that the refusal is essential to maintain the ethos of the school; if she is undertaking a review of the difficulties that inevitably arise in this area; the arguments she has received and considered in relation to the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24546/07]

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201 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether a constitutional requirement, in Article 44.2.4° of the Constitution, to the effect that legislation providing State aid for schools shall not be such as to affect prejudicially the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money without attending religious instruction at that school, is compatible with admission policies in schools receiving public moneys that admit persons of certain religious denominations in preference to others or refuse to admit as a student a person who is not of that denomination on the grounds that the refusal is essential to maintain the ethos of the school; if she is undertaking a review of the difficulties that inevitably arise in this area; the arguments she has received and considered in relation to the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24546/07]

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1. 18 October 2007

   School Funding.

   201 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether a constitutional requirement, in Article 44.2.4° of the Constitution, to the effect that legislation providing State aid for schools shall not be such as to affect prejudicially the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money without attending religious instruction at that school, is compatible with admission policies in schools receiving public moneys that admit persons of certain religious denominations in preference to others or refuse to admit as a student a person who is not of that denomination on the grounds that the refusal is essential to maintain the ethos of the school; if she is undertaking a review of the difficulties that inevitably arise in this area; the arguments she has received and considered in relation to the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24546/07]

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