Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I am curious to know what prompted the Minister to introduce the amendment. It is the case that all legislation is open to all sorts of interpretation. It is not possible to frame legislation that would address all possible bizarre interpretations, but the Minister must have concrete evidence of the experience of parents in trying to get children with mainstream needs into special units such that he was prompted to introduce the amendment? I do not see the point of it unless it is a phenomenon. Is it?