Ms AnnMarie Farrelly:

This is a personal view but I do not see any merit in schoolteachers working for a local authority. I will name that. If a local authority is developing its area, and in this case it will be the four of us, there will be a need to understand where the future school provision will come from. There is a power that could go to a mayor but the actual day-to-day operation of schools would not.