Mr. Martin Hanevy:

I might link this to a wider point.

The issue of feeder schools is one of the things with which we are not interfering, as the schools would see it. It is one of the things the Minister is not making impermissible. Fundamentally, the intrusion these regulations make in the content of admissions policies is being kept to a minimum. The relationship with feeder schools, where that exists, is not being banned or outlawed.

The probable answer to the example case is one of two things. It might be that feeder school arrangements were originally set in respect of a second level school prior to the establishment of some of those Gaelscoileanna or Gaelcholáistí. However, that is one of the things on which schools have autonomy. Some of the feeder school arrangements might flow from planning decisions, where a second level school was located due to where people were coming from, transport routes and so forth. It is a space on which we are not proposing to prescribe. The issue is that, whether by local co-operation, discussion or agreement, the feeder school arrangements of a school can be updated.