I should like to ask the Taoiseach if, in view of the undertaking in the Programme for National Recovery that the burden of financial adjustment would not fall on the disadvantaged in education, he, or any party to the central review committee, has raised the issue of vocational school cuts at meetings of that committee and, if so, what was the conclusion?

This is an extension of the question.

To the best of my knowledge that matter was not raised specifically at any of the meetings.

Does the Taoiseach anticipate that this matter, the increasing inequalities arising from changes in access particularly to vocational education, will be figuring on the next or future agendas?

That will be a matter for one of the parties to the agreement.