Mr. Hubert Loftus:

I know but that is the position in terms of the impact.

Reference was made to Finland. An important point to make is that many other European countries are not in the same boat as we are with regard to trying to resuscitate the finances of the country in terms of trying to manage where we are at. Furthermore, they do not have the same scale of increasing demographics that we have to try to manage at the same time.

Clarification was sought in terms of a definition of a small school. There is no internationally recognised definition of a small school. If we consider two of our nearest neighbours and take Scotland as an example, it would regard a school of up to 100 pupils as a small school.