Ms Roisin Marshall:

Mr. Brady asked where the most opposition comes from. In many senses, if we looked at it very simply, it is the controlled and maintained schools. It is well established how we came to be here and it was not a deliberate attempt to separate children or any such thing. We are, however, where we are and the statistics tell us - as Sam said earlier - that in general Protestant and Catholic children are not being educated together, never mind the other diversity that now exists all over Ireland but also in Northern Ireland. We need to look at it as a change management programme. Mr. Brady spoke of his school. There is an emotional attachment to school. We are trying to ask people to think differently about it. I would ask the Catholic-maintained schools and the controlled schools how they are going to attract people from the minority tradition into their schools. That is all we are asking them to think about. This is very difficult if it is not the traditional choice parents make. We are also asking parents to make different choices.

We want to empower parents to make a choice. That choice is to call for the school to which they are emotionally attached, to which they went, that their children go to and that their parents went to, to transform to integrated status. The parents have that power. It is a legal process which takes a few years, but there is that intention. That is what we are asking people to do. We would be very grateful for anything anybody could do to help us to empower parents to make that choice and change their school.