Mr. Eamonn Murtagh:

We are working closely with colleagues in the NCSE in terms of the identification of schools that are in a position to provide special classes for the coming September and where additional accommodation or refurbishment of existing accommodation is required to facilitate the provision of those classes. We ensure we work closely with them to allow that to happen through the additional school accommodation, ASA, application process in terms of projects to deliver that. It is a fairly fluid situation, as colleagues in the NCSE have outlined in terms of identification of these classes, but where a school has identified a need for September 2021 and a commitment to put that in place, we work hard to enable that to happen before the coming school year.