Mr. Kieran Christie:

The truth of the matter is that a lot of small measures have been implemented. All of them are welcome in the sense that they have generated some small improvement but the big nettles have not been grasped. I will leave it at that.

Regarding the posts of responsibility, there is no proposal coming from the Department. The budget was very disappointing. Often in the past, we have had budget announcements of additional posts in schools but there were none this year. We have to ask ourselves why people are going abroad to teach. They are going because there are no promotion prospects here. The Deputy is touching a raw nerve with this issue.