Ms Rachel O'Connor:

That is a great point and there are a couple of factors that could be in there. The first could be an inadequate system for the transfer of information from primary to post primary. Then, I would go back to what Ms Lynch said about issues to do with self-reporting to the NCSE and parental capacity to do so. Choice is also an issue. I would have students who transfer and do not want that because of what I mentioned about whether we are excluding children by way of the set-up of special classes at post primary. When children are coming to their teenage years they do not want to be seen as being in a different class from the mainstream. This is a great point that needs to be investigated further.