Ms Michelle Gildernew:

I thank the witnesses for their presentations, and for their forthright and honest answers. I am very lucky because I have a number of fabulous integrated primary and post-primary schools in my constituency, and I have been very supportive of them all. Unfortunately, there was another school. Again, I visited it back in the day but things did not work in the end and these things happen.

We, in Sinn Féin, are very pleased to have been able to support the Private Members' Bill.

That is a great step forward in placing statutory responsibility on the Department. Sometimes we need targets and tangible figures we can work towards. We hope the Private Members' Bill gets through during this assembly mandate and we move on. What is a realistic target for increasing that number from six to eight? Where will those figures be in five or ten years' time? I think our guests have covered most of the rest of the points but what do they think is a tangible figure? I know it is always controversial to put numbers on it, but what is realistic? I would appreciate it if our guests would try to answer that. I thank them again.