Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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-----if it would be in school buildings or whatever. In some instances, that may be the case, and it might be an outside provider coming in to do whatever in the school building. Last year, we launched within the schools a system whereby if they are in a position to give over any element of their property, anything they make out of it they hold themselves. The principle of schools being used for support to the community is an important one. That may well be the case but it is not limited to that. It is wherever the facility might be - build, buy, lease, whatever we have to do. It is important that the State would provide that opportunity.

On the AIMs aspect of it, I am a big supporter of that because that is inclusion at its best. We are looking at this notion of afterschool and what potential might be there. There is a whole plethora of things we would like to do. A lot of it is dependent on how budgets go and everything else but with regard to what we do not achieve on the first day, I would hope we have a number of years to achieve it.

On Equal Start, it is our intention to expand that as much as possible. I am out of time, am I?