Mr. Martin Hanevy:

I said that we were putting in other remedies to mitigate the problem. I also made the point that there should not be any appeals in 80% of schools because they are now required in law to enrol everyone. We believe that a section 29 process would mean that we would have a power of designation for the school for whatever reason it invokes. We have one for special needs kids and one for all other kids. They are the big remedies. There is an overarching remedy. If there is profound messing going on in a school the Minister can intervene.

The net question is on enrolments that flow from oversubscription. What will the appeals committee do if the school has honourably done the right thing according to its own criteria? I noted the concern expressed by the National Parents Council when it asked what if they have not done so. It is a different issue when a school makes errors and parents correctly point them out but the school does not refuse to correct its errors. That is a wider issue than enrolment and is about everything that permeates down.