Mr. Greg Browne:

Our schools always have good working relationships with SENOs. In 99% of cases, SENOs have been very helpful. The Chairman's point is well made. As I mentioned in our presentation, the checks and balances that we had in our admission policies worked. For example, we did not accept any child who was not in our range. The child had to have an educational psychological assessment clearly stating their IQ, with a recommendation by a psychologist to come to our schools. Those are the fundamentals of our admissions policies. Now, the system is in reverse. The parents must contact their local SENO and get a letter for eligibility by 1 October of any year. By 1 October of this year, parents will have to have most of their paperwork in place to apply to have their child attend our schools next September. The power has been taken from the board of management. The checks are in our schools. We never break our admission policies. Children must have the proper IQ, there has to be a recommendation and board of management approval and, finally, the SENOs will sign off to say we are not abusing the system. That is now going the other way, however. We had a perfect system for special schools in place. It allowed no abuse. It was not that we were inflating or keeping our numbers artificially high for other reasons. We keep within the guidelines of our enrolment policies and they are approved by our patron. I hope I have answered the question.