Ms Cara Steinmetz:

That is okay. I will take note of that. Step two is looking at all the transition phases. One has the hospital first and then primary childcare, which is pre-school level. Then there is the Department of Education. We know that a child with Down's syndrome will, at the age of five, need a place in a primary school; an adapted curriculum; a special needs assistant, SNA; a resource teacher; and continued access to speech and language therapy, SLT, occupational therapy, OT, and physiotherapy. It does not matter which of our children we are discussing; they all need that.

When they get to age 12 they all need the same in a secondary school environment. Whether that is special education or mainstream the provision needs to be there for that child in the area where they live. We know that in advance.