Professor Edgar Morgenroth:

The ESRI has done research on DEIS, which is a very successful scheme. Were it to be introduced in Northern Ireland today, it would affect the pupils in school today. It would not affect any of the people currently in the labour market or unemployed or whatever. Those are unaffected. Until they literally are out of the system, which is what Professor FitzGerald was trying to say, you will always have a lower average. At least 50% of the labour force needs to be affected by the DEIS schools but that is going to take years. There is no way of overcoming this because-----