Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

I will get the Deputy in again. I have a question about SEN accommodation, which is included in the Minister of State's opening statement. Huge inroads have been made. I remember that when we were putting down motions at a council meeting in Clare some years ago, there were one or two autism classes in the entire county. I think there is now one in most schools, so huge inroads have been made. While there is huge positivity from the Department - it is even writing to schools to ask them to open autism classes - I am increasingly seeing that the practicalities are somewhat tricky. If an autism class opens in west Clare, for example - this could be anywhere in the country - there will be six places available, a SENO will immediately start to engage with families and the class will fill up very quickly. If, two years on from that, children in the locality need to get into the local autism class but it is full, they will be sent back the other way to the other side of the county. There are a lot of cars crossing each other in the morning on the road. I understand the difficulty that the SENOs have. If they are opening a class for six students in September, they do not want to half-fill it and wait to see what happens in years two and three. I get all of that. I understand the constraints. I am just making the point that we have cars in every county, not just Clare, criss-crossing each other because of the enrolment allocation model that is there at the moment. Can that ever be looked at?