Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The joint committee will suggest that reduced timetables be classified as a separate category and not recorded as a form of suspension because the latter is viewed as a sanction or punishment when that is not always the case.

I thank the officials from the Department. We will be in contact about the possibility of members meeting officials to discuss some of these issues privately. It would be useful for us to have a conversation. I thank the members for their valuable contributions. We will suspend briefly to allow the next witnesses to take their seats.