Mr. Mark O'Connor:

For some parents it is something that will help. As my colleague, Ms Dempsey, has said, for many parents it is not. I always cite the following example. There is only one special school to cater for counties Monaghan, Cavan and Leitrim so people could be faced with travelling for an hour and a half each way to school. That is an hour and a half to drop the child at the school, an hour and a half to travel home and the same in the afternoon, which is not feasible.