Ms Áine O'Sullivan:

I want to go back to a point made by Mr. Crone, which was raised earlier. This is a complicated complex area for schools when they are over subscribed. We know this. Schools have spent a lot of time on the 2018 Bill putting together their admissions policies, including all the stakeholders from the patrons down. They have also spent a lot of time working together on trying to deal with oversubscription at local level. They have also spent a lot of time in board meetings looking at reviews. Now there is a facility for parents to appeal to the board and look at the whole procedure. This has been useful. There are many positive elements in the Bill. I am thinking back to my time as a principal. A lot of time is spent at board level looking at the issue of admissions and to see whether a school has discriminated. A school will know this from the correspondence from those who did not get places. Schools spend a lot of time reviewing the process each year. A question was asked as to whether schools have changed from being firmly on one side or the other. Most likely they have. Schools are very mindful of all of the unintended consequences.