Mr. Paul Byrne:

There are and I have them somewhere. The bulk of them are genuine applications and they are granted. I am looking at some of them in front of me but some are refused as well. You are not as afraid to refuse an application now because there is an appeals procedure which the parents can enter into. By and large, if the parents are looking for a díolúine there is a genuine reason for it. One of the other things I was looking at is why there seems to have been more applications since 2019. Pre-2019 you had to have a letter from an educational psychologist and that was posing a barrier for a number of the students who needed to get a díolúine. That barrier is gone and so you have more parents making applications.