Mr. Michael Gillespie:

We sponsored a project in the context of DEIS. It was reported on last year. TASC was the independent organisation which ran that survey for the research project. What it reported was that investment in DEIS schools where teachers had smaller classes, extra budgets and the home school liaison made a difference. It was not a huge difference, but it is making a difference that DEIS is working. Can the Deputy imagine if we did that what we are trying to promote DEIS plus? Everybody should be in DEIS. Every student should be treated like that and we should have smaller classes and whatever. If we can prove that it makes a difference and every report is making a difference, that should be the way forward.