Ms Miriam Jennings:

We have had meetings. The Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, has set up a special education forum to examine matters like this one and we know that it has been discussed at the forum. Both the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, are well aware of the advantages of the Maltese programme. As far as I can remember, the latter Minister of State has commented on the programme. We do not have anything firm to update the committee about but we are working as hard as we can and communicating on it. As Ms Jenkins has said, we have communicated in meetings with Malta three times to constantly get to the bones of what they have established that can work here. We will meet the Minister of State very shortly so we may receive an update.