Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is there a reason? There was a rally in Clonmel in my own county last weekend with children with autism and this just keeps coming up. The data is there from when a child is young and has autism. It does not disappear in the May or June before he or she goes into school. Why is that kind of data not used to track children in autism all the way through? It should be used for school buses and school places from the time they are diagnosed to the time that they become 18 to an adult. There should be some sort of system in a developed country like ours that should keep that tracked in order that it is not a yearly fight for school places, school buses or being told there is no place in the school locally and that you must move to someplace else. Is there any reason that kind of data is not used on a continuous basis to track children with special education needs?