Mr. Fred McBride:

We can. Tusla education and welfare officers are active in this area as well as those running the school completion programme. We also have home-school liaison services, usually provided by teachers. If a liaison is needed between home and school about a child's progress or lack thereof, that can happen. There are children whose families have chosen, as they are entitled to do, for their child to be educated at home and we monitor those home-educated children.