Mr. Gerry McAleenan:

A failure to identify can lose somebody 20 to 25 years. Dyslexia should be identified when a person is at school, but there is now greater awareness. We are seeing a correlation between adults and their children also, but, as the Deputy said, outside the classroom, they become disruptive, get a bad name before being expelled and are out on the street. They end up having difficulties with the Garda and begin to use drugs at ten, 11 or 12 years of age. That is what happens. It is small, but it has huge significance.