7-Page Registered Letter to Norma Foley, Her Bishop and Local Priests Goes Unanswered — Concerns Over Catholic School Content Contradicting Church Ethos A follow up was sent: _______ Dear Minister Foley, I am writing to follow up on my correspondence sent to you on 21 August, concerning matters relating to education, children, parental rights, human dignity, and the compatibility of certain policies with Catholic teaching. I have to express my disappointment that, to date, I have received no response to that correspondence. In addition to sending the email and attached letter, I also sent a registered letter through A Post to each of you, so that there would be a clear record of the correspondence being sent and received. I had specifically requested a personal and substantive response to the questions raised. I also copied the clergy named in my original correspondence because a number of the issues raised concern Catholic teaching, Catholic anthropology, the protection and dignity of children, parental rights, and the responsibilities of Catholics involved in public life. As a Catholic mother, I am extremely concerned about the content to which children are being exposed in our education system, including in Catholic schools. I believe parents have a legitimate and serious interest in understanding what children are being taught and in ensuring that their dignity and wellbeing are properly protected. What's the T? and other material provided to you I am also astonished that you, Minister Foley, have made no comment regarding the highly sexualised book What's the T?, particularly given that we have gone to considerable lengths to ensure that you personally received a copy and had the opportunity to examine it. On 18 June, we sent you copies of What's the T? and other relevant material by email. Following our presentation at the Houses of the Oireachtas on 10 June, we also hand-delivered a physical copy of What's the T? to your Dáil postbox.  I am also in possession of a read receipt confirming that the email was opened six times, most recently on 24 July at 3:32pm. Therefore, I know that the email containing this material was accessed on that date and at that time. Given the nature of the material provided, and given that it was brought directly to your attention both electronically and in physical form, I find the continued absence of any comment or substantive response particularly concerning. As a Minister with responsibility for education, I believe parents are entitled to ask whether you have examined the material provided to you and, if so, whether you consider its content appropriate for children and compatible with the principles that should underpin education, including education in Catholic schools. Living Love and Catholic schools In this regard, I wish to make clear that I welcome the new Living Love SPHE programme developed by the Catholic Education Partnership. I also wish to thank the Bishops who have endorsed Living Love as a child-safe SPHE alternative to the current programme, which I believe raises serious concerns in relation to its content and its compatibility with Catholic teaching. The existence of a Catholic-developed alternative makes the questions raised in my original correspondence all the more important. As a parent, I would like to understand why an approach developed specifically within Catholic education and endorsed by Catholic Bishops would not be given proper consideration as an alternative for Catholic schools. Our decision not to campaign publicly against the silence of the Bishops. I also want to be transparent about something we have deliberately chosen not to do up to this point. We have refrained from organising a public campaign calling on Bishops to break their silence on these child safeguarding matters. We have done so because we genuinely do not want to see people become alienated from or turn against the Catholic Church.