Ms Mary Logue:

I mentioned DEIS schools in my opening statement. I spoke to a colleague who said that in a DEIS school in the west, there had been over 90 unexplained absences in a school population of 500. There are home school liaison people and psychotherapists working in that school. My point was about the volume of such absences in the school. That is a lot for any home school liaison teacher to be working on.