Mr. James Walsh:

The Department has data around the number of people who have applied for and who have gone out on assault leave and that data is available. However, that does not necessarily cover all instances where a person is injured from physical contact from a third party because if there is no injury arising or if the person does not feel they need to take time off, they will not apply for the leave. The information is there in terms of how many people are on that leave type but it may not necessarily indicate the number of incidents that take place in a school for that reason.