Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is Ms Bailey saying that, although we are keeping 98% of people in the second level system, they are not benefitting from it and it is not doing its job? They come out a few years later and do other tests but do not demonstrate evidence of having benefitted from completing second level education. If we are not succeeding with second level we need to carry out an assessment of the reasons. If we are not making tangible, lasting progress with people in the schooling system, we have to do it later on, as it is much more difficult to bring them back into the schooling system. There is a big contradiction in the figures Ms Bailey has given.