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  • #182
    JayRoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    I don't get you.
    How do you get this
    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    The schools under the patronage of the RCC would still be run by the RCC regardless of how many people identify as Roman Catholic, .

    from this
    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    because the State is obliged to provide for education, which means that it's the number of children enrolled in a school determines the amount of funding provided for their education, regardless of the children's religious affiliation or none


    ??

    If there are fewer catholics, then the argument that the majority of schools should be under the patronage of the church because the majority of people are catholic, doesn't hold up any longer.


  • #183
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Lies, damn lies and statistics. Never a truer phrase.


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