Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegation and thank them for their input to this debate. What in the delegates' experience are the biggest challenges for children in the care system accessing education? I refer in this regard not to the emotional challenges but to the practical difficulties such as enrolment in schools and so on? Have the delegates pitched the paper which they sent to the Department of Education and Skills on focus on the primary system? I understand that 40% of our teachers currently come from Hibernia College. Have the delegates considered putting some of their proposals to it. Given it is responsible for training 40% of our teachers I believe it would be open to meeting with them.