 Over decades the Orders would typically answer any official complaint by pointing to the low capitation amount.A major review of the system by Thomas Derrig in 1933-36 left it largely unchanged, as did the 1941 Children's Act.It has been suggested that Derrig refused to reform the system in line with the British reforms of 1923 and 1933 because of his strongly anti-British stance during the Irish independence process in 1916-23.