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10/03/2009
Orange Men Cross Border For Education Summit
Proposed cuts in grants to Protestant schools in the Irish Republic are on the agenda at a meeting today between the Orange Order and an Irish government minister.
Tuesday's head-to-head is the first such cross-border meeting to have ever taken place with the Orange Order and an Irish minister.
Meetings with Education Minister Batt O'Keefe and Brian Hayes, the Fine Gael Education Spokesman, have been arranged.
"We are concerned about the future of education for Protestant children," said Drew Nelson, the order's Grand Secretary.
The delegation for today's meeting is to include Grand Master, Robert Saulters, Grand Secretary, Drew Nelson, as well as senior officers from Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan.
"Last autumn's budget in the Republic proposed the removal of the Special Service support grant from Protestant fee-paying schools. This is totally unacceptable and would have a major effect on the education of Protestant children," said Mr Nelson.
"We will be making the point very clearly to the education minister, that the Protestant population want to play their part in civic society in the Irish Republic, but actions like this send out the wrong message to our community."
(BMcC/JM)
Tuesday's head-to-head is the first such cross-border meeting to have ever taken place with the Orange Order and an Irish minister.
Meetings with Education Minister Batt O'Keefe and Brian Hayes, the Fine Gael Education Spokesman, have been arranged.
"We are concerned about the future of education for Protestant children," said Drew Nelson, the order's Grand Secretary.
The delegation for today's meeting is to include Grand Master, Robert Saulters, Grand Secretary, Drew Nelson, as well as senior officers from Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan.
"Last autumn's budget in the Republic proposed the removal of the Special Service support grant from Protestant fee-paying schools. This is totally unacceptable and would have a major effect on the education of Protestant children," said Mr Nelson.
"We will be making the point very clearly to the education minister, that the Protestant population want to play their part in civic society in the Irish Republic, but actions like this send out the wrong message to our community."
(BMcC/JM)
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