Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

During the processing of this Comptroller and Auditor General review, we significantly reduced the categories under which substitution was made, especially as it applied to official school business at second level. We reduced it significantly. Initially, the Government removed the category of official school business and then allocated a few million because schools found it very difficult to cope. Many school management bodies indicated there would be difficulties in keeping schools open in January 2009 if a small amount of substitution was not available. We reduced the categories in order to ensure the 37 hours is maximised at second level.