Reilly’s excuses deserve further scrutiny

Your account of Minister James Reilly’s grovelling excuses to the UN Human Rights Commission in respect of lack of parental choice in respect of their children’s schooling deserves further scrutiny.

While all are agreed that something has to be done to ensure that the State provides sufficient school places to meet the education needs of families, there seems to be little radical thinking on the part of politicians, including successive education ministers as to how this might be achieved.

If our Government was to follow the English school funding model, we would liberate the whole system and give massive power to parental choice.