David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Quite often, it is the system that has ultimately failed the child when that happens, when the child has to be expelled or suspended. The system has failed the child, not the other way around. On that and where the system might not work to meet the child's needs, can the witnesses talk to me about Youthreach and other such programmes that would be adjunct to the mainstream education system, and where, if the systems fails, children can move to a system that might actually meet their needs in a better way?