The Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan says teaching about relationships in schools will not be affected by the Same Sex Marriage referendum if it passes.

Last week a group of teachers advocating a No vote this Friday, said that if the referendum is passed they would be obliged to teach a new model of marriage to children.

Ms O'Sullivan says the ethos of religious schools is protected under the law. 

She told presenter Jonathan Healy: "This is entirely scaremongering, it's throwing up red herrings now that have nothing to do with the referendum. This referendum is about giving people the right to marry if they're gay. That is all it is about quite simply and all these other issues that are being thrown up are not part of what is being put to the people.

"Justice Kevin Cross has clearly said that and said that in a number of issues that have been raised by the 'No' side."

She finished by stating: "It is not anything to do with school curriculum or the way in which schools deal with issues.

"The wording of the referendum is very simple. It is simply to allow a person to get married irrespective of their sex.

"I would urge the Irish people to look at the wording that they are being asked to vote on, to recognise that it is simply to ensure that a person who is gay has the opportunity to get married, to set up stable relationships like the rest of us in our society are entitled to set up.

"It's about stability, it's about marriage, it's about giving people the opportunity to commit to each other for life. To suggest that it's about other things is scaremongering in my opinion."

You can listen to her full interview here: