Mr. Mark O'Connor:

On the first point, the Deputy is correct if that a school is offering two weeks, the family cannot engage the home-based piece. One cannot avail of the school-based and home-based programmes. To clarify, families do not have the option of turning down the opportunity of doing two weeks in the school in favour of four weeks in the home-based programme. If the programme is available in the school, it must be taken up there. As was stated, if only two weeks are being offered in the school, one cannot supplement that with the home-based piece.

On the issue of siblings, I do not have the exact numbers to hand, but there is a little bit of extra tuition available if there are siblings in the same house. That was not available in previous years, but this year there is a small amount of additional tuition available. Instead of having a strict limit of ten hours for one child, there are extra hours available for other children in the house.