Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)

This is an area of high unemployment. It meets all of the deprivation statistics. I have spoken to members of the parents' committee in the school who are of the firm opinion that the withdrawal of these scholarships has the potential to mean that some students will not be able to afford to go to third level education. That is wrong. I know of secondary schools in other parts of the country with DEIS status that do not meet the same criteria that this school does. There are two issues. First, the overriding issue of the change in scholarship policy. Second, why has a school with DEIS status, along with all of the feeder national schools, been withdrawn?