Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

That is why the Department does not support grinds schools. The league tables in yesterday's newspapers did not give an indication of the type of education young people receive in grinds schools. The top 15 schools that sent their students to UCD were in south County Dublin. Where is UCD? South County Dublin. The top 15 schools that sent their students to NUI Maynooth were all based in the Kildare-Meath area. In the case of University of Limerick, 13 of the 15 top schools were in Limerick, while the remaining two were in Galway and north Tipperary. Geography has as much to do with which college young people attend. The socioeconomic background also has an impact. It has nothing to do with whether a student is in a fee-paying or non-fee-paying school. It is a dreadful disservice to all schools for these league tables to concentrate on 300 students on a selective basis when there are 40,000 young people going into third level education this year.