Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister.

My next question is for the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan. The effect of the past two years has been huge in respect of students with special educational needs. Has the Minister of State's section in the Department been doing a review on the effects on special needs children and what lessons can be learned from that? At the start of the pandemic in 2020, the special education schools were closed and very few resources were available education-wise or for tuition for children with special educational needs. Will a full review be carried out specifically concentrating on special education? We have all learned lessons whereby we do not want to see children who require special education being left the way they were during this pandemic. If it does hit again in future years, and hopefully it will not, will the Department have had a review done and lessons learned in order that where mistakes were made, they will not be made again?