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Wed 10 Oct 2009O'Keeffe 'on collision course with Protestant faith'
MINISTER FOR Education Batt O’Keeffe was accused in the Dáil of being on a “direct collision course with the Protestant faith in this country” and of being “utterly insensitive” in his handling of the funding paid to voluntary Protestant schools.
The accusation by Fine Gael education spokesman Brian Hayes came as the Archbishop of Dublin Dr John Neill accused the department of a determined and doctrinaire attack against Protestant schools over the decision to cut funding to 21 educational establishments and to reduce teacher numbers.
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