Ms Tina Merron:

Once the schools have been established and get capital funding after three years if they want to grow the Department of Education steps in and will continue funding them until they reaches a certain stage. The problem is that the Department of Education demands that schools prove there is the demand and one of the few ways it can prove demand is to put up another mobile and encourage other pupils to come in. If that can be done the Department will subsequently fund it but we have to fund the mobile initially. In the past couple of years we have funded some 13 additional mobile classrooms for schools to prove demand.