Mr. Kieran Golden:

I have had the privilege of being involved in senior management for the past ten years. In the past five years in particular, we have become more and more accountable, which is a good thing. Principals and schools are accountable. Parents should not be under the illusion that some individual made a decision and that is it. We are accountable to our boards of management. I am accountable to the board of management in my school. It is the old Donald Rumsfeld phrase, "compliance, compliance, compliance." Schools are now very compliant places. Parents are perfectly entitled to ask the question and appeal it. They can ask for more detail. Some points were well made by my colleagues here in that regard. We are accountable for what we do, thankfully. We do not have to make decisions in isolation. That protects all of us.

I will bring some of the questions together, if that is okay, rather than trying to remember who asked which one.