My Department is considering the results of recent revisions to projections of future enrolment in the light of demographic and social changes as well as the publication, by the CSO, of new population projections in December 2004. As the Deputy will appreciate, uncertainties arise in regard to future migration trends, participation at various levels of education and long-term trends in births. Nevertheless, it is important to move ahead and plan for the continuing increase in enrolments at primary level, which will eventually feed into second level, as well as the need to increase completion flows from further and higher education in the light of long-term economic and social needs. Following consideration of the likely resource and policy implications of the revised projections, I plan to make the latest projection publicly available before the end of the current school year.