Ms Áine O'Sullivan:

Both of the gentlemen have said much of what I wanted to say. There are issues around getting parents on boards of management, a parents' association or any organisation in a school as we must get them into the school first. A parent may have been very involved with a child's education in primary school but coming to second level, parents sometimes tend to step away. That is a job of work for our schools and some of our schools do that very successfully, even through the community education programme, which we can use to bring in parents. As Mr. McKelvey points out, many parents do not come into the school because they have had a negative experience. It is about changing this around.