Michael Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)

On the assessment of needs, as I said earlier there is a huge volume of work being done at Government level because we do understand that this is one major issue in terms of children and additional needs, and that the assessment of need is done in a meaningful and timely fashion. We are working with all Government agencies at the moment to break down the silos in order that cross-departmental information can be shared from the HSE, the Department of children and the Department of Social Protection so that we are better informed about the decisions we have to make in the provision of special education at primary level and at post-primary level.