Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We depended on the HSE CHO areas to provide that information. In some areas, we got some of that information. In others, we got less, and in others, it was less again. There was not fairness because we were not getting the information that was needed across those CHO areas. It was determined that there was one place where that information would be available, which is within the school, with whatever school data it had. We recognised that some children who would not be able to engage in any of those assessments or the type of testing that would go on. Those children with complex needs would get the maximum weighting for complex need without doing any form of testing, such was their additional need. We need to find a new system because it was identified to us by many practitioners on the ground that the information about the complex needs was not coming forward from the HSE CHO areas.