Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)

In your opening statement, you spoke about introducing a common application system. I think everybody would welcome that. As a TD for Limerick, we have a common application system already in place for people transitioning from primary to secondary level, which works well but not brilliantly - it could work better. I have raised concerns about that but it works better than what it was. It was brought in because people from disadvantaged communities - I come from one myself - were not getting access to schools. We had this annual problem in Limerick which by and large has been eliminated. Will you outline your thoughts?