Mr. Humphrey Jones:

Schools are required to manage their equipment. In a lot of cases, that can be tricky. It varies enormously. I will be very honest with the Cathaoirleach. I work in a fee-paying school with an enrolment of 350 kids. We have got five state-of-the-art laboratories. I was talking to a teacher a couple of days ago who teaches in a school in Donegal. He has four leaving certificate biology classes with 70-odd kids. Those four leaving certificate biology classes in a school of 700 kids have access to one working laboratory. The central goal of leaving certificate reform is that it is equity and excellence for all. That is the motto, but it is not the case.