Ms Roisin Marshall:

It is important to say that 40 of the 65 schools referred to were started from scratch, as Amanda has said. The 65 schools over the 38 years roughly equates to two schools per year. I do not know any other organisations that are able to say they developed two schools per year, apart from Educate Together of course. The growth has been phenomenal. When one considers groups of parents coming together to start those, with no money, it is quite amazing. Of the schools, 40 started from scratch, meaning that most of the 65 schools were created as brand new schools.