Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have concerns about this. I wonder if category of need is defined. It struck us when we read it. We have had representations asking us to table amendments similar to this. We took a look at them and thought that we could not propose them. They looked to us like something one would not want to propose. On that basis, this amendment does not look something I want to support either. Yes, in the case of a school for the deaf, that is what it does and we need to allow for that. However, I would not like to see certain people on certain parts of the autism spectrum being unable to go to a particular school because they are too hard to deal with. There are many such examples.