Mr. Hubert Loftus:

I thank the Deputy for the question. I will let Ms Mannion come in but as a general point, and to bring it up to a strategic level rather than individual schools necessarily, there is a huge amount of co-ordination done across the planning and building unit, the special education section and the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, to ensure there is early identification of need and working through a pathway for delivery. As I said earlier, that pathway involves using either existing accommodation and reconfiguring that or projects as part of our normal programme that are at construction stage, of which there are currently 300, and some of them might be complete in time for September 2023. If neither of those is the route and there is still a need we have modular accommodation solutions in place. We have a modular accommodation framework that assists with accelerated delivery. That makes it more straightforward and easier to deliver on needs.

You can never give a 100% guarantee with building projects generally but when you look at the conditions and mechanisms we have put in place, a huge amount of positive work has been done to position all the stakeholders to deliver on needs as quickly as possible. If one looks at 2022, we were hugely successful at delivering a lot of additional capacity into the system and we look forward to building on that progress in 2023 and beyond. I ask Ms Mannion to add to that.