Mr. Ciarán Cronin:

My colleague Sinead Fowler, who is in the Gallery, and I sat with a parent and went through the process. We tried it for ourselves because the parent in question did not have an email address or a computer. We would support a person like that anyway. It took us just over an hour to do the whole process, and that was without an updated report for the child. We hope the notification will be accepted and we can try to apply later on for the updated assessment for the child.

The waiting list for an assessment of need in our area is up to four years at the moment. This means that, technically, a child in second class in our school will have to apply now for an updated report for secondary school. That is madness. The answer is right in front of us in that the child is already in a special class.