Mr. Hubert Loftus:

On accountability, boards of management are the legal entities which manage provision and are required to provide education and implement guidelines and procedures. On the person responsible in the Department for managing this, my job is managing teacher allocation and redeployment. Part of that has been managing the guidance provision and implementing that budget measure. In fairness to the Minister, Deputy Quinn, he was been clear and upfront that it was a budget measure and, as such, would make life more challenging for schools. Equally, he was clear about protecting the most disadvantaged schools by improving their staffing allocations. The other part of my job involves child protection and bullying. My job includes updating the bullying procedures. The action plan was published in January. I have met with education partners and we are on a pathway to have them in place for September.