Waiting lists for Catholic schools are a testament

I wish to make a reply to a letter published in your newspaper (March 11) and headed “No free country behaves like this”.

I don’t know to what religion the letter writer, a Mr Colgan, adheres, but I am a practising Catholic.

I would like to inform him that all schools are publicly funded, and that Catholics pay taxes like everyone else.

We all have a right to send our children to a school of our choice. My local school has a Catholic ethos. This means that my Church pays an amount of money for every child enrolled, regardless if they be Muslim, Hindu, or of any other religion.

There have been attacks on Catholic schools by our own Education Minister, Ruairi Quinn, and by others. I would like to ask just one question: why are there waiting lists for Catholic schools in so many countries?

B. Cotter

Mungret

Co Limerick