Ms Martina Mannion:

Ms Tansey and I work together on the area of special education and NEPS, but I hope we will be able to answer some of those questions. The Minister talked specifically about the important role that the inspector will play in the system with regard to subject inspections and whole-school inspections. Every component of the working schools are examined by our inspectors when they go in. We will be able to get the Deputy the number of people who are coming from abroad with regard to exemptions.

I understand some 112 exemptions were given for students coming from abroad in 2022. More than 6,000 were given at post-primary level for children who were coming from abroad. Those are the figures that I have. The Deputy talked about-----