Atheist Ireland letter to Public Accounts Committee May 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Public Accounts Committee on 24 May 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AI-to-PAC-24-May-2022.pdf" title="AI to PAC 24 May 2022"]
Letter from Atheist Ireland to Dept of Education after Meeting re Misuse of Public Funds
This is a letter from Atheist Ireland to the Department of Education on 17 May 2022, after our meeting re Misuse of Public Funds on 6 May 2022. Thank you again for our meeting on Friday 6 May regarding the misuse of public funds, and we look forward to meeting ...
Atheist Ireland writes to Minister for Finance about misuse of public funds in Irish schools
Atheist Ireland has written the following letter to Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for FInance, regarding the misuse of public funds in Irish schools. Dear Minister Donohoe, We wish to make a complaint about the misuse of public funds in relation to the criteria by which any class or classes of recognised ...
Department of Education writes to Public Accounts Committee re Atheist Ireland report
This is a letter from the Department of Education to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee on 25 March 2022, in response to Atheist Ireland’s complaint to the Public Accounts Committee. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-03-29_dept-of-ed-to-pac.pdf" title="2022-03-29_dept of ed to pac"]
NCCA writes to Public Accounts Committee re Atheist Ireland report
This is a letter from the NCCA to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee on 8 March 2022, in response to Atheist Ireland's complaint to the Public Accounts Committee. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-03-10_ncca-to-PAC.pdf" title="2022-03-10_ncca to PAC"]
Atheist Ireland writes to Public Accounts Committee and C&AG
This is a letter from Atheist Ireland to the Comptroller and Auditor General on 8 February 2022, and to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee on 15 February 2022, following the Supreme Court judgment in the Burke case. This is a follow-up to our complaint from December 2021. On page 16 ...
Minister for Education replies to Atheist Ireland about religion in schools and anti-abortion video
The Minister for Education Norma Foley has replied to a letter from Atheist Ireland about the right to not attend religious instruction in schools and a recent anti-abortion video shown in a school. Here is the Minister's reply and our reply to her. Letter from Minister for Education to Atheist ...
Atheist Ireland writes to Minister for Education regarding religious instruction
This is a letter from Atheist Ireland to the Minister for Education on 21 January 2022, in response to her letter to us on 17 January. We copied it to the Oireachtas Education and Public Accounts Committees, and the Comptroller and Auditor General. Dear Minister Foley, Thank you for your ...
Parents in Cork want objective sex education, not the Catholic Flourish course
A group of parents in Cork are organising to challenge the Catholic Bishops sex education course ‘Flourish’ in their children’s Primary schools. The Catholic Bishops plan to teach their new course alongside syllabus Social, Personal and Health education in schools. The parents say: “We're a group of concerned parents in ...
NCCA to consider new Court of Appeal judgment when reviewing Primary Curriculum
Last November Atheist Ireland made a submission to the NCCA's consultation on the Primary Curriculum. The consultation date is now over. But the NCCA has agreed to consider a new Appeal Court judgment as part of its review, after Atheist Ireland sent them the following letter: Atheist Ireland letter We ...