To ask the Minister of Education how many children, who did not take the new transfer tests in the previous academic year, have subsequently transferred to grammar schools.

The Department does not hold any information on the number of children who have taken unregulated entrance tests in any of the years since they were first used by grammar schools in contravention of the Department’s policy that no child should have to sit a test as part of the process of transfer from primary to post-primary school. It is therefore not possible to identify how many children were admitted to grammar schools without having sat unregulated entrance tests in the previous academic year.