The Campaign to Separate Church and State has said the Government's amendments to the Education Bill have the effect of "emasculating an important legislative reform." They made "a nonsense" of any claim that the State was now adopting a "neutral `honest broker' role between the different educational interests".
The CSCS added "Niamh Bhreathnach's action is like a throwback to the days when democratically elected Irish governments would prostrate themselves before the ecclesiastical authorities."