Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

When the review she referred to is prepared, will Ms Corcoran please send it to the committee because we hope to have a further meeting on this matter in due course? That would be very important to us.

Approximately 11 weeks ago, our committee decided to write to the NCSE seeking very important information, which only came in this morning by email at 8.45 a.m. It is very hard for us as legislators, TDs and Senators, to scrutinise this issue when we are getting information ten or 11 weeks later and minutes before we begin our meeting. That will form some of my line of questioning later. We are all here and trying our best. We are a mixture of TDs and Senators, many of whom are from educational backgrounds, and here on a cross-party basis. We are trying to fight for a better education, the same as the witnesses, but it is really hard to do that body of work when we are getting bits and shreds of information minutes before a meeting begins. We appreciate that there is a summer period and people down tools - no one is saying otherwise - but if we correspond with the NCSE, we would like timely correspondence before we meet.