Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To follow on from that, to be fair to both Ministers, Deputies Madigan and Foley, they have often spoken on these questions and about the collaborative approach with schools. As was said, that is in theory or ideally how you would like to approach these things. Obviously, we are where we are and the fact the Ministers have signalled their intention to bring forward emergency legislation is in itself an acknowledgement of the situation we are in. Based on that, would it yield what Ministers are aiming to set out? Earlier somebody asked Mr. Kearney how many children were getting a diagnoses every year. He said there is a model, a five year forecast, but at the rate we were going with the collaborative approach, how long would we have been waiting to catch up given the shortage of places with that forecasting model before this emergency legislation was mooted?