Michael Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)

The special class is sanctioned for the school. Usually, it is because the NCSE has looked at the need within the community, but it would be a collaboration between the school authorities and the NCSE. As regards families or children who are known to the NCSE and who made themselves known to the NCSE by 1 February of this year, that was delayed a week because of the storm. It is our responsibility to make sure we have school places for those children. We have school places for the children who have been identified and are known to the NCSE. It is a collaboration between the NCSE and the boards of management or the management bodies of the school.