Divestment 'moving at snails pace' as just one school left Catholic patronage in 2022

 The current Government has set a target of increasing the number of multi-denominational primary schools to 400 by 2030. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The Government has been accused of "utterly failing" to meet the demand for multi-denominational schools with just one changing its ethos this year.

The Opposition claimed the programme to divest schools from the Catholic church is moving at a "snail's pace" after it emerged just one Irish-medium gaelscoil had changed to multi-denominational in 2022. It became the 14th school to transfer to a multi-denominational patron.