Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 6 Mar 1990

Vol. 396 No. 6

Written Answers. - Resource Material on AIDS.

Monica Barnes

Question:

233 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Education the way in which children attending schools in receipt of public funding could avoid religious indoctrination if a religious ethos such as she advised in connection with her Department's pilot programme for AIDS instruction is to permeate the curriculum.

Minister for Education (Mrs. O'Rourke)

In the case of the pilot project on the use of a set of educational resource materials on AIDS, the advice given by my Department to school management was that the material be used in accordance with the ethos of the school and the wishes of parents.