I completely acknowledge that. The point of my remarks was not to single out West Belfast as an area of underachievement, because the Member is right that, clearly, there is real attainment going on there. However, it is true that attainment is not good enough in the North generally. He has been one of the most consistent advocates, as his colleague Aisling Reilly was earlier, of the idea that the long tail of underachievement in this region is intimately connected to our system of selection and the fact that we have a pernicious system that divides kids at age 11 and promotes a form of selection that no serious objective analyst or academic who is looking at educational outcomes thinks is a good way of running your education system or, frankly, your economy. It is important to put that on the record. Kids in West Belfast suffer from that, in part because it is also an area of higher than average deprivation. It is important to say that, and it would not be honest of us not to say it.

I want to draw on a couple of particular themes that have been talked about today. Some of the important initiatives that go on in West Belfast have rightly been highlighted. Obviously, West Belfast, in addition to all the great schools there, has one of the North's two teacher training colleges, and I know that St Mary's plays a huge part — the summer schemes at St Mary's have been outlined — in the broader community work of improving attainment and joint working between agencies, schools and, indeed, community groups.

There are specific issues that, we know, affect kids across this region, particularly in working-class families, such as the cost of school uniforms and holiday hunger, and those structural challenges exist in West Belfast too. My colleague Paul Doherty, councillor for Black Mountain, who does amazing work in Foodstock on the Andersonstown Road, has done particular work on, for example, holiday hunger and school uniform drives. That is a real challenge. We had questions to the Minister yesterday about that. That is one of the real pressures that face families in the west of the city, as it is in other parts of this region.

It is important to say that, in getting to the root of some of the issues that we face in West Belfast and across the North regarding educational achievement, we need to see specific targets. I will look to a Programme for Government, when it finally emerges, to see what the specific targets are for the Executive. I acknowledge that there are real funding constraints facing the Minister and other Ministers, but it is important that we see specific, measurable outcomes. Hopefully, some of those will be outcomes converted from the independent review of education and the report, 'A Fair Start'.

Gerry Carroll acknowledged and was right to say that there are concerns around the underfunding of some of the recommendations in 'A Fair Start'. I acknowledge that there is not endless money. The way in which we are funded in this place imposes constraints. We, as an Opposition, have never been unrealistic about that, but that means that it is even more important that there are clear and measurable targets for families and educators in West Belfast and other parts of the North. They need to know what the targets are, what will be prioritised and what will be delivered. There are specific things that I would like to see tackled in this mandate, but I suspect that they will not be, in part because I do not think that the Minister will be able to get political agreement; in fact, I am not sure that the Minister would give that political agreement in the Executive. What are the specific actions that will be taken to improve educational attainment in places like West Belfast?

In commending the debate and acknowledging the huge progress that has been made and the real work done by educators in West Belfast, I should also talk about the impact of lost programmes and lost funding for things like Healthy Happy Minds and holiday hunger. Real work has been done by educators and community groups and by schools like St John the Baptist Primary School on Finaghy Road North, which has had to do its own fundraising and plug gaps caused by lost funding. While acknowledging all the positive work that is happening and the positive progress in West Belfast and other parts of the city, I would like to see specific plans in a Programme for Government. If the Minister is able to shed any light on that, that would be most helpful.