Mr. Mike Allen:

As far as I am aware, nobody has conducted any systematic research. We work very closely with the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO. In the next couple of months we will be bringing out a joint support pack with the INTO for national school teachers and schools. The teachers who work with these children see this as an issue. Millions of euros are spent on homeless services, whereas the amount spent on evaluation and research into what does and does not is negligible. Most of the money spent in researching homelessness is spent by Focus Ireland. Most of that comes comes from fundraising. There is an extraordinary absence of adequate research into questions of this sort.