The right to not attend religious instruction and the misuse of public funds in Irish schools
Since last year Atheist Ireland has been raising the issue of the misuse of public funds in Irish schools that do not respect the constitutional condition of state funding that children have a right to not attend religious instruction. Following the Minister for Education's recent misleading Dail reply about this, ...
Atheist Ireland letter to Public Accounts Committee June 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Public Accounts Committee on 11 June 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AI-PAC-June-22-.pdf" title="AI PAC June 22"]
Minister for Education gives misleading Dail answer about the right to not attend religious instruction
When protecting the right of children to not attend religious instruction in schools receiving public money, it is important to use the language in the Constitution. In particular, the right to “not attend” must not be conflated with “opting out” or “not participating”. These ambiguous phrases have no basis in ...
The constitutional rights of nonreligious parents in Irish schools
Atheist Ireland continues to campaign to protect the constitutional rights of all families in the education system. Parents have positive inalienable rights regarding the education of their children, and nonreligious parents have the same positive rights as religious parents. These rights come under: Article 41.1 and 42.1 “The State recognises ...
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 Public Accounts Committee to Atheist Ireland
The Public Accounts Committee wrote this letter to Atheist Ireland on 17 May 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/S0849-PAC33-Atheist-Ireland-mtg-28.04.2022.pdf" title="S0849 PAC33 - Atheist Ireland mtg 28.04.2022"]
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 meeting with Department of Education and NCCA May 2022
Atheist Ireland met with Department of Education and NCCA on 6 May 2022 to discuss the misuse of public funds with regard to the teaching of religion in Irish schools. This is the presentation that we made to that meeting. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AI-Dept-Ed-Mtg-Slides.pdf" title="AI Dept Ed Mtg Slides"]
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 ...
Schools must respect parents’ right to the ‘Religious and Moral Formation’ of their children
'Faith formation' in our schools is the basis for a lot of discussion by people and organisations on both sides of the debate. Some argue for ‘faith formation’ to stay in schools and others argue that 'faith formation' should be removed from the school day. The term ‘faith formation’ is ...