Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

I could not agree more. I am not being critical of something that has been successful, but I will illustrate an example. When I started in Dáil Éireann six years ago, a mother in my county used to email me every second week and I asked parliamentary questions about her. She was a go-getter. She had a toddler with an autism diagnosis and she was moving heaven and earth to make sure her local school would be able to provide for the child. Lo and behold, the Department worked wonders. An autism class was set up, but when that class was developed and funded - it was fabulous and state of the art - it filled immediately. By the time the woman's child was of schoolgoing age, the woman who had led the campaign for the local autism class found she could not get her daughter in. She is going one way and there are children going another way. The Minister of State visited a school recently and he went down very well with them. He met some children. One of the children had come from Limerick that day to a school in the middle of Clare. I do not want to see people pulled and told they are being moved back to a school closer to home. However, NEPS or some organisation has to have some cognisance of the children coming up behind and whether we can meet their needs locally. That is the general point.