Ms Roisin Marshall:

It is very important to say that in the past three years since the Assembly came down, the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Derek Baker, has approved 25 of our development proposals for growth. The Assembly being down has not hampered our growth until very recently when we had five of our nursery units not approved. The reason was there was not enough money in the budget. Looking to the future, we are very perturbed that unless something is done around the Assembly getting up and running again and our education system in general receives more money into the system - because we believe there is not enough money in the system for it to run effectively - this could hamper our growth in the future. We feel that until those recent turndowns, we have managed to grow despite the Assembly not being up and running.