Mr. Brendan McCabe:

I wish to make one further point on the board of management issue. Sometimes there is a dearth of skillsets among boards. This could possibly be helped by giving some of the back-office functions of schools to ETBs. For example, the maintenance of computer systems is a pain for most principals. There is no reason such a back-office function could not be handled on a regional level by an ETB. We propose that as a possibility in order to alleviate that stress and pressure both for principals and for boards.