Mr. Peter Osborne:

I know we have a brief amount of time but I will answer on the other part of the question. The official Department of Education figures show that, in the Catholic-maintained sector, 1% of pupils are from a Protestant background, while in the controlled sector, 7% of pupils are from a Catholic background. The education that goes on in all of those schools is largely superb. I am quite sure that most, if not all, of the teachers and everybody else involved are doing a fantastic amount of terrific work not just in the educational development of the young people under their care, but also in their spiritual development. We certainly are not criticising the quality of teaching or the commitment of teachers but, when there is 1% from a Protestant background in one sector and 7% from a Catholic background in the other, the fundamentals of supporting a reconciliation process and the systemic separation of children and young people from the age of five have not been addressed, despite the Good Friday Agreement having been agreed nearly a quarter of a century ago. Something can be done to bring them together outside of school hours and something can be done through initiatives like Shared Education but, in some ways, it is like throwing a bucket of water over a stone. It dries up and you would not know that some of that contact had happened. We want to see more systemic change and children and young people being educated together in the same classroom. That is not happening in other sectors in the way that we would want.