Mr. Peter Osborne:

There are issues in the South as well as the North in terms of minority communities, whether they be from newcomer or minority communities. In terms of being from a Protestant background, 100 years after what happened in the 1920s those issues are still to be addressed in some ways in the South just as they are in the North but obviously there are greater issues in the North. I do not know the answer to the Deputy's question. There may be scope to do some exploration around that and how collaboration North and South in education systems can be effective as well.

I wish to mention an issue that we have not touched on and that is educational under-achievement. Across the sector and community, and I think that the education system and the independent review, I hope, and this may be linked to the earlier point that the transfer test needs to tackle that, the statistics show, especially among Protestant and Catholic working-class kids, when a system is as good as our system is in many ways also creates educational under-achievement to such an extent then there is something wrong that needs to be addressed as well.