Ms Lorraine Dempsey:

The HSE scheme is hoping to provide support for 1,200 children this summer. I do not believe this is necessarily feasible. Parents can now employ an SNA for the home-based provision but they are already saying there is huge difficulty in getting tutors and SNAs to take up the home-based provision. We have more than 9,000 parents registered currently for an expression of interest but we will not know until October how many parents actually managed to engage a tutor or SNA.