Ryan O'Meara (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being here. They have provided important information and background on an area that is often a vacuum of a lack of information, knowledge or understanding of. As Deputy Dempsey said, it is important to understand what the change means. Many times, once there is a change, there is a fear of change. We need to get the message across to people in here that this is not what this is. In my engagements on this with Mr. Browne and the MGLD class in Nenagh, I have noted the lack of information in the general population of what these schools are and the challenge of trying to get people to properly understand them. It has been very useful for the committee, and also more generally, to get this point raised in the Houses. I thank the witnesses for their contributions and the opening statement, which has been hugely helpful to our work.