Michael Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)

I take the point. There is a lot of work going on. I do not think there was a principal off during the month of August. Many principals and school authorities were engaging with us on a daily basis on the challenges they were facing.

I compliment the school authorities because they are very serious people and they are very genuine about trying to ensure that they accommodate families and children with additional needs. It is on their backs and those of the special needs assistants and teachers that we are building the special education system across the country. When it comes to saying we have a place or pathway, we are working to ensure any additional help that we can give will be given and any resources that can be put in place will be. We are going into the budgetary process again to make sure we have further SNAs and teachers in the process to make sure we have a better system again next year. We are not blind to the challenges out there.