Anne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail)

I fully take what Ms O'Neill is saying, but consider a parent who did not have access to education as a child and does not have that one good person to support them and their advocacy and does not know their rights because their literacy is poor. There is no family resource centre in Ballinasloe to help. That parent is at an immediate disadvantage until someone somewhere flags up that that child is not attending school. We do not have public health nurses going in and out of every house either. The child slips through the cracks very quickly and stays on that crack until he or she is seven and a half years old and somebody says it is wrong. I am not talking about just one child. I am aware of three who were not at school at seven and a half years old. They slipped through the crack for one and a half years, whether that is a Tusla crack or an education crack. These parents do not know how to compel.