Part of Education – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:30 am on 17 June 2008.
Last week, the Minister told the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ that in general terms, people already knew what the criteria for post-primary transfer would be. On my first day in the Chamber as Chairperson of the Committee for Education, may I say that the Minister can bay at the moon and howl at the wind, but she will not get agreement until she faces up to the political reality of academic criteria.