Demand for School patronage choice growing \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe
26 July 2012<\/p>\n
Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has welcomed this week\u2019s announcement that 14 new patrons were to be appointed to new post-primary schools across the State but said that the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruair\u00ed Quinn or his Department are not responding quickly enough to the demand that exists from parents for an education choice for their children.<\/p>\n
Deputy Crowe said: \u201cI welcome the announcement of 14 new patrons for post-primary schools including the decision that the multidenominational patron, Educate Together, will take responsibility for the running of a school in Blanchardstown. This is a first for Educate Together which will also share patronage of a school in Drogheda with the Co Louth Vocational Education Committee (VEC).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cEight other schools will also be under the care of VECs in Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Meath and Cork. Gaelscoileanna body An Foras P\u00e1tr\u00fanachta will become patron to two schools, and the Church of Ireland and Le Ch\u00e9ile Schools Trust will have responsibility for one school each in Greystones, Co Wicklow, and Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, respectively. All 14 of the schools will be Co-Educational.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn welcoming this announcement I recognise the disappointment and frustration of other schools that missed out when they had their applications for patronage turned down. These include the Loreto Education Trust, which applied to open a school in Ashbourne, Co Meath, the Marist Education Authority, which sought patronage in Dundalk, Co Louth, the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Drogheda, the Muslim Primary Education Board in Blanchardstown and the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Navan, Co Meath, which were also turned down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat this highlights is the growing demand from parents for choice in different secular\/non secular education and it is clear that Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn and the Department of Education and Skills is not responding quickly enough to the many applications that are being made.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimilarly, the 2011 Census showed that the number of Irish speakers in Ireland has risen by 7.1%, so there is a growing demand for the opening of local Gaelscoileanna. The issue of school patronage is essential for the development of the language and is something the Minister and his Department need to fast track and prioritise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Demand for School patronage choice growing \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe26 July 2012 Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has welcomed this week\u2019s announcement that 14 new patrons were to be appointed to new post-primary schools across the State but said that the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruair\u00ed Quinn or his Department are not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}