Mr. Gerry Bennett:

I suppose the context of the proposal was around the falling enrolments in the North Cathedral parish. As we know, there has been a considerable decrease in student population in that parish. I suppose behind the proposal was an attempt to consolidate Catholic education in that part of Cork and how to go about doing that. What was proposed to the board of management and the teachers was not a decision but a proposal to go to the school, the board, the teachers and so on and to come back to us in a very short period of time to see whether it was acceptable and if not, to come up with alternative proposals.