Mr. Pat Burke:

And it will exercise them, absolutely, and it will have an input. Ultimately, the strict theology behind this is that this is a policy matter which descends from the Minister and the Department. A strong argument existed that a proportion of kids doing ordinary level were scared of the higher level. One would expect that as those kids now migrate to higher level, they will probably score the higher grade in the higher level, but in the C realm. That is what we would expect. What we are getting therefore as a policy objective is an exposure of a greater cohort of kids to higher level maths than we would have had previously. With respect, that is a legitimate policy objective.